I recently turned down a NGC slabbed 1909-S IHC because of verdigris. To me the other big turnoff is a finger print.
Every once in a while my LCS has something different and unusual for me. [ATTACH]
Having trouble posting the photos. I hope these make it. [ATTACH] [IMG]
I just picked up this token. It's a F-188/435e Civil War token. Graded as MS-61 and is R-8. Over the last couple of years, I have been building...
Perhaps the loop was designed to have a ribbon threaded through it and worn as an award or designating someone as a member of a Fair committee....
Here is my solution. Very low tech and requires a pair of scissors and some stiff cardboard, assembly time is less than a minute. [ATTACH]
"It was a tough choice to sell but now I'm retired and I'd like some funds to keep going on my Japanese set." Like you I'm also retired and...
I'll take good care of it. It's a beautiful coin. Can you tell me more about the provenance of Star City Homer Collection.
I have a Conder token with a catalog # written on it by a collector from long ago. At first I thought it was kind of annoying, now I think it's...
Very nice selection. Personally, I am a fan of slabbing coins because it provides authentication and protects them from damage when I am drooling...
I could always find small change in the little piles of dirt and debris that end up against the curb in parking lots.
Two of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I was active as a custom jeweler back in the 1970s and 1980s I would buy palladium setting and findings because they were less expensive than...
Photo credit to Stacks and Bowers for the Edward the VII Crown. I don't purchase very many British coins but this one grabbed my eye. The second...
The Liberty Head Eagle will probably be an EF or XF. The Double Eagles will most likely be AU or low MS coins.
I need three more coins to complete a gold type set that starts with the Classic Heads and runs through the St. Gaudens design. To complete the...
In Germany, during the early 1920s my grandfather would be paid twice a day and he would need two satchels to carry the money. My father said that...
Gorgeous.
[IMG][IMG] Photo Credit Steve Hayden Cool finds. Do you mean Frank Siegel aka Franz Sigel? He was an instigator of the revolution of 1848 in...
Grabbed this little sweet thing last night. It's an MS-67 [IMG] I picked up the Peacock from a Civil War token auction. It's an M21, MS-63 BN....
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