Yes this one looks familiar. This half was featured in the “For Sale” section last week. I fell for it the second I saw her and I’m completely...
The shot below is the reverse of a half eagle I own. I had always attributed the red haze in the device crannies as jewelers rouge from an old...
I have a bag bursting at the seams with gold dollars. Hundreds of em. I never been an errors or varieties guy. But I keep hearing about this...
I am blessed to have the the most honorable nice guy dealer in the business a mile from my home. I stopped in yesterday to feed my weekly coin...
i have an affinity for early US gold and am routinely picking up quarter and half Eagles. It just occurred to me that I seldom see these entombed...
I get a tad giddy when a wheat cent shows up in my pocket change. Just got home from a weekend holiday and poured all the weekend loose change out...
Ok.. I have many skills. Photography ain’t one of em. Anyway I forgot I had this 190 year old beaut. Thought it may be fun for a GTG.... Yes the...
Over the years I tend to alternate between buying rolls of ASE’s and cull dollars. I seldom look at them. Just place the rolls in the bottom of...
Image below came from the "showcase" thread here on CT. As a kid this was a magical coin to me even though I have never owned one. Just now...
I preface this by stating very frankly...... I am not an errors guy. Yesterday we had a very esteemed member of the forum being treated quite...
The infinitesimal criteria we use these days regarding grading and coin care are worlds apart from the criteria used by our numismatic ancestors....
i am an old collector. I have a substantial collection, but only a handful of fairly recently acquired slabbed coins. I am not as well schooled in...
These are free. Helped a freind liquidate an inherited collection. After the job was done he had a pile of clear plastic storage tubes. Mostly...
The image below is a stock Google image I copied to illustrate my question..... Back in the 1990's part of my collection was stolen. One of my...
As a youngster, finding a wheat cent was a near magical experience simply because they were “obsolete”. Now it appears the reverse design of the...
In all my years I have had four raw coins slabbed. I don’t have an affinity for slabbed coins. I did them simply so my wife could liquidate them...
The Google images for large cent love tokens is abysmal. I need a decent image of a large cent love token to show my jeweler/engraver what I want...
Used to see these commercials all the time. “Own your genuine Morgan dollar copy while supplies last.”.... I haven’t seen that TV commercial for...
Been collecting a very long time and have never considered altering a coins appearance. I have a sixty year old Whitman album of Mercs. Maybe a...
i am a guy far more drawn to the history that lives in his coins than I am the grade/quality. I have trade dollars with chop marks and just...
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