@lordmarcovan, thoroughly enjoyed your reporting. You saw some things I missed even though I was there for four days. Show is big!!! You have a...
"Crumbling" mostly happens at the rim and dentils but there are exceptions. With crumbling rims what you're looking for is evidence that the...
Its 2:30 at FUN and they just opened the bourse for dealer setup. I got registered an hour ago and will give the dealers some time before I go...
Weather predictions: A cool front coming through Thursday bringing some scattered rain followed by cooler temperature on Friday (high 60s) and...
Try this. Home - Dave's Bust Half Dollar Site (maibockaddict.com)
In a large enough market, auctions are a great, maybe the best, price discovery mechanism. If you're being consistently outbid, then it's fair to...
The Liberty Seated half dime was minted from 1853 to 1855 with arrows beside the date to denote the reduction in weight from 1.34 grams to 1.24...
@bikergeek, I looked at your PCGS Registry Sets - very impressive. I'm not nearly as far along as you and my overall grade is only 48 for 69...
First, what a wonderful 1830 LM-1.1!!!! Glad you got it after the auction. But since it won't cross to PCGS in your favor, I'm sure you want to...
Nice coin! I'd leave it in the ANACS slab.
Use the EAC annual auction results. As a member, you receive the catalog and the auction results for each lot. Also, the asking price from the...
I'm going for it. Let me just cash in the IRA and 401k and mortgage the house.
Did you mean NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) instead of EFTs (ETFs) which are Exchange Traded Funds? ETFs are a legitimate stock-based equity...
@bikergeek, I see your profile puts you in Merriam, Kansas just outside KC, KS. When I was growing up in the 1960s at Whiteman AFB (Knob Noster,...
I will be spending time at the Central Florida Coin Club table 974. Also at JRCS club meeting Fri at 8:30 room N320A and LSCC club meeting Fri at...
Slab exists on both NGC and CAC database. Maybe the sticker got warm or wet and adhesive temporarily loosened enough to allow it to slide around....
A couple of additional interesting sidenotes. In looking at David Perkins' sale of the Richard Meaney collection, I came across the listing for...
A few more pre-Federation and Colonial coins, a 1797 half dime, one or more Anglo-Saxon silver pennies, a mid-grade 1917-S T-2 SLQ, 1877 IHC,...
It's a perfectly appropriate rule-of-thumb for those cases where it works and not appropriate for those cases where it doesn't. Seriously, I...
@bikergeek: Alright, I've refreshed my memory of Mr. Meaney's proposition, reviewed the relevant passages in LM, and taken a look at my own coins...
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