It's graded 10. [IMG]
No way, no how PL or DMPL. That is a bad coin.
The possible bump in value has more to do with the individual coin and less to do with what the price guide might imply. They bump may be more...
1884-S? Ouch! Harshly cleaned AU.
Many lightly to heavily circulated coins were cleaned with sulfur containing products and then placed in albums in the 1950s through mid-1970s....
I've glad you got accepted, but three out of eleven for success sounds like a problem might be brewing. Do you have images you might share?
I'm there are week and will be set up with Numismatic Americana, though I do not recall the booth number that we have.
They buy them and then sell them "up the coin food chain" to traveling wholesalers who stop by every month or two to pick them, and other, things...
Honestly, I don't know what I have spent. However, I can state that I have used my library extensively over the years and continue to use it...
I don't believe they should be mandatory, but of course the effort that someone puts into the listing may very well reflect the response they get...
Register at Heritage and look up auction data and/or buy a subscription to PCGS Coin Facts and use it, too. These are fairly common coins and you...
Howdy and welcome. Buy a Red Book for $20 and you will have most questions answered at your fingertips.
My post was written because it appears that price is the driving force to your potential purchase while your own standards might be a secondary...
You have asked for suggestions and so I write this very politely; you appear to be price buying and that is generally a recipe for a substandard...
Nineteenth century proofs were not caught and polished.:banghead: Regardless, that coin was pretty well imaged to tell you that it was already...
These were pretty common a couple decades ago.
As others have stated, this is known as a doily slab and was produced a few years after PCGS introduced their rattler slabs. The enormous crack...
I had been at the Baltimore show the last few days and was busy prior to the show, so I have not been on the boards for about a week. This coin...
I wasn't certain it was a proof because the images are so terrible. However, I think you may have a misconception about proof coinage from this...
It's an 1897, not a 1987, but I think you already know that.;) I can give you no price, but can write that it looks impaired if it is a proof at all.
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