It commemorates a $100 bill - maybe you can fold it?
Well, it *is* individually struck. As opposed to those other coins that are stamped out of sheets of metal 300 at a time, I suppose? And there...
Aww, wish I lived closer..
May be a mistake as the link no longer exists.
I absolutely agree. Beautiful pristine surfaces are lovely, but they can also turn on you (literally) and then you have something much uglier...
I don't disagree, but I was thinking of sending in some low value tokens and my Daniel Carr pieces (because who else will slab them?).
And have done it. In the mid 1950's I was given a box of old coins: large cents, half cents, three cent nickel and silver - quite a pile of...
I did some testing yesterday - I found variations up to .2 grams for identical slabs - see...
Also, ANACS will grade things others won't. One other thing: they'll negotiate.
Do you think we are the only people that browse eBay? Even if the owner really were dumb enough not to have it authenticated, people would be all...
And they are wrong when you look them up at NGC also. I suppose you could just send back the silver and demand that the coin be replaced :)
Seriously, I hope none of those bids are real. Are they all you guys having fun or is there a very deluded person out there?
Funny how some fakes become collectible, especially when rich people bought them :)
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They were made around 1859, and not even in New Haven. You can see mine at...
I wimped out and bought one of the so called New Haven restrikes.
Not probably. Absolutely.
But they were accidentally monetized again in 1965. I'm not sure where they stand now....
It's the same answer. Metal is metal. Some metals are more reactive, but cleaned is cleaned.
It is funny how cleaned gold doesn't look nearly as bad as cleaned silver, though.
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