Definitely a MAD. Not valuable, but a cool thing to find and keep to show people.
74 and have collected coins since I was 11
I see the doubling. I would say it's what we call die bounce. No extra value, but kind of neat. Not worthwhile to have it professionally graded.
Definitely fake.
Absolutely. You need to find a more knowledgeable dealer. Perhaps one who is an actual numismatist rather than just a businessman.
I think the "error" you're talking about is the doubling on the chin and nose. That is called a double profile. It is a form of minor double...
I once bought a 1793 half cent in XF. I had never spent anything close to that amount of money on a coin before, and it bothered me so much to...
Graphs like these don't really mean that much. That huge drop from '08-'18, where it looks like coin values fall off a cliff, actually is less...
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The first secret is to take the best pictures that you can at the highest resolution you can. Then it all depends on how you want your album to...
I guess the question is whether you NEED to own the same coins all the time. If you do, don't trade, but realize your collection will ultimately...
There is a way to get rid of haze, but if I told you what it was, I'd have to kill you, and I don't want to kill you.
Quite true. Years ago, I bought a coin that had been whizzed among other things and was in a holder that prevented me from seeing that. No returns...
VF Something.
I agree. Poorly made fake and not from transfer dies unless it was a transfer from another fake. Even the border beads don't look anything like a...
You can collect coins. Or, you can collect products made from paper, plastic and metal. In this case, the coin is not scarce, even in high...
Like nearly everything else in American Numismatics - other than top pop stuff - prices for half cent varieties have been a little weak. The...
Half cents are wonderful, and as several of you have pointed out, rare and underpriced. A date set of the classic heads and braided hairs is...
I didn't exactly do a crossover. I broke an ICG MS65 Morgan out of the slab and sent it to PCGS raw. It came back MS65.
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