Since you purchased these yourself from the shop in 2004, you should have a good idea if you paid a premium to their then possible bullion value....
The up to $100 face value exemption was a huge sum of money for most folks, so of course the great majority of the population could not have...
The part in bold is incorrect. Executive Order 6102 allowed exemptions for gold used in industry, profession or art and, more importantly,...
Looks possibly holed and repaired. What does the obverse look like?
I still don't like either of them, but you are free to ignore what I like or don't like and to buy coins that please your sense of aesthetics.
You will get about as many different or divergent pieces of advice as there are folks who are willing to post to this thread. Keep that in mind.
Participating in these is akin to burning your money except that you do not get the benefit of the heat from the fire.
I have never seen that type of PCI holder.
You may very well be buying retail more than you know.
Online bullion dealers as mentioned above or dealers with online sites like mine.
Looks to me like a cleaned/polished AU, but the images are really poor and make any determination just a best guess.
Why do you think it's fake? The images are truly horrible, but it just looks like a lightly circulated and polished coin.
The color is not original, if I am interpreting the images correctly. This flat, dull, lusterless orange-pink is a dead ringer for a dipped...
Looks like a slighty circulated Lincoln cent, nothing else.
I'm not writing to take ebay's side or anything like that, but the slab image requirement has been their position for a while if I recall...
Buy Mark Goodman's book and read it. This shot was from a Nikon D60 camera, which is a DSLR discontinued in 2005, using a 105mm lens. If the...
Howdy and welcome. Truly, the amount of money you get out of this collection will be strongly correlated with the amount of work you are willing...
If you are certain, for whatever reason, that they are worth the investment of time, effort or money to get certified then I will state that they...
It would impair the eye appeal, but on its own would not earn the coin status as being circulated.
D'OH!:o
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