What's your best recent CoinStar find? Mine is this 1943 Mercury dime, which I would have graded F-VF back in the good ole days (1950s and '60s)....
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Virtually all of my coins are graded by one of the big 3, with most of them by PCGS. I've never cracked out a coin. I've listed some of them on...
I, too, have habitually renewed my subscription, but the last time I was going to, I called to give a credit card number and was told that I no...
Are you for it or against it? If you believe in it, do you prefer one service over another? Any negative experiences with a major certification...
If you've been a dues-paying member for 50 years, they'll send you The Numismatist free, no more dues to get it. That's what happened to me, at...
Are you an ANA member? If so, what do you get out of it? How long have you been a member? If not, why don't you join? Benefits of membership?...
I'm not all that big on toned coins, but that's a nice short set of Mercury dimes that definitely shows the benefit of PCGS's digital albums.
Crude pictures, but here are a couple of pictures of my digital album.
I should have added that the digital album is the ideal way to have your coins in an album without having to crack them out of their slabs. Also,...
I disagree with your comment that eBay is like George Santos. I think there's lots of good, legitimate stuff on eBay, and lots of people/coin...
I just found one of those "rare" 1964-D error listings on eBay for $3 postpaid! Perhaps you should buy it and offer it at the bargain price of...
As a collector who has most of his coins in a safe deposit box, I think PCGS's digital albums are the perfect way to have my cake and eat it too....
My favorite of the the 3 is far and away the Shipwreck coin. The coin is really old and spent many decades below the sea, where it didn't...
I've reached an age at which I know I don't have all that many years left. No one in my family has an interest in coins, so there's no one to...
This is a great chat. As an adult collector, I had my collection at home. Before we went on a small trip, I hid all my "good stuff" under the...
If you want a certified second opinion, send it to a major certification service. ANACS is good and relatively inexpensive.
XF45 looks right on to me.
The picture of the PCI 1909 Proof Lincoln cent graded PR63 cleaned fits the category of details coins that wouldn't bother me at all because to me...
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