There is always going to be a line somewhere that certain coins will bump up against, be it one side of the line or the other. The 1814 E/A...
I really wanted to keep that 1805/4 Draped Bust half dollar when I purchased it at the ANA, but at the same time I don't want to continuously...
Eye appeal definitely varies according to who is looking at a given coin, piece of art, potential spouse, etc....However, a fairly large and...
The FUN show is enormous. I don't know how much you want to look at, but four days can be easily soaked up at this show. Very few dealers take...
That's a rare coin!
Nice AU coin.
Buy insurance specifically for the move.
Before we get too carried away about what happened to the coin please keep in mind that this is actually a fairly common date in AU. It is only...
Youch!
The last two editions I have purchased were the 1994 and 2008 releases, so I am good for quite a while yet.
The David Lawrence book on the series is the best written, in my opinion, and you may have to scout out ebay to find a used hard copy.
Quite a few of these older, low grade coins "tone like crazy" because they were previously cleaned with sulfur containing compounds and the...
With silver at $19.93 per ounce this piece melts at around $1.44 so it would be worth right about that number.
My wife and I both went to public schools and we both ended up with Ivy League educations and earned PhD degrees. However, we also sent our...
If by "toned" you mean deep grey, auburn and steel coloration for old, circulated silver then that is a great set. If you want instead a more...
I would have ignored the messages, which no one else could see anyway, and moved on without comment. Of course, I prefer less drama with...
I think the most obvious answer that most are passing over is that the US Mint should never have sold these coins at the ANA Show. If you look at...
Thank you for taking the time to post. As I wrote in my post, I am ignorant of the process with which the ANA interacts with the US Mint, which...
We were set up at table 117, which faces the main entry point to the show and we were directly behind the Heritage cluster of tables. From our...
This is likely the first show report that I have ever written prior to coming home, but the events of the last week seemed too important to wait...
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