Welcome. I believe you did well. I do not haggle.
The top three are corroded and you can't fix corrosion. It is theoretically possible to wear the coins down beyond the depth of corrosion, but I...
It may be a strikethrough instead of a scratch.
I've purchased a single coin for my collection this year, so the average would heavily be skewed by that one month "splurge".
It may very well be real.
It's fake.
Why are you puzzled? You are attempting to buy perhaps the most widely counterfeited US coin of all time and you can't tell the diagnostics for...
I would not purchase that for 200 euros.
Welcome back. I decided not to renew my Greysheet subscription this past month and I have been a subscriber for over two decades. For many...
Your friend must be very old.
It's been opened before, so why not open it again?
I like it.
One thing that is making it much more difficult for you to understand grading is that you have a coin that has been dipped. It might have been...
You need to edit the cert number out, too, or else it is trivial to plug the number into the cert verification database to see the assigned grade.
They are a great series and have, indeed, brought many collectors into the hobby.
The Red Book is a great source of information for these types of questions and it would show that S-mint quarters were produced in both...
My impression, given what we have read, is that Barfly was mostly fair with his purchase price to the original seller. However, and this appears...
It does not look PL.
It all depends upon how the coin is stored and if it's in an environment (wet, high sulfur content, low pH) that is conducive to toning. With the...
Ouch. Ouch.
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