The obverse design was probably dropped for being rife with imperialist overtones, but don’t quote me on that
Pretty much all of them. The AU/MS Federal/Bust coinage Made, not surviving.
Nope. You have to look at coins holistically. If 90% of the coin has MS details, but 10% has VF details, then it is reasonable that there are...
Their definition of the AU/MS boundary changed. The rationale is that some technical AU-58’s are Ms-65 coins with just a touch of wear. Some are...
Then you should calculate the final costs of things before you bid on them
I was talking with a dealer on Monday, while he was chatting with another customer about coins as an investment vehicle. He talked about a...
They are actually rim cuds
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Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you go bust. Values of decent-quality early-date large cents have doubled in the Past 20 years. Commems...
Here is an example of this. These are both the same date, both MS, both are the same variety. The first is graded MS-62 BN by NGC, the second...
The vast majority of them will rise and fall with the price of gold, at least in the common grades. Higher (rarer) grades will have a premium less...
Never read the book, but I have read the excerpt. When you study ancient Chinese coins as extensively as I have, you understand what it means from...
For anyone wondering, this is an S-79, reeded edge cent. This example is among the finest known. The Dan Holmes VG sold for over $1 million in...
I see coin-on-coin hairlining. Thatwill bring it down
I’m contacting people at the TPGs to get added protection to unprotected slabs so that the fake slabs are less effective. Huh? what? Not...
The reverse is actually completely untouched and original. The obverse has been abrasively cleaned, with a spot removal at 5:00. In hand, you...
The only one that’s obvious is the Barber quarter. What do you see in the rest? I’m sure everyone wants to know your obvious tells.
A far greater percentage of ancients collectors learn how to authenticate themselves, but most dealers are bonafide experts with strong guarantees...
Looks like a 45 to me.
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