I don't understand the whole sniping thing. If I want a $300 coin, I'll put in a realistic max bid accordingly and forget it. If I'm not bidding,...
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Google translate from your first image claims that it says "Guo Jun has the most treasures in the Twenty Treasure Heavens" in Chinese. It can't...
Do you have personal experience or evidence of large numbers of MS-graded coins being crossed to CACG and getting AU grades? This is kind of...
https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/2160/USA-Coin-Album/ written by David Lange. The article is mostly about the myth that these old albums will...
I also noticed that one is blank and appears to be bent. If I was the buyer I'd go straight to a jeweler for confirmation that they're really...
Regarding photographs - ANACS did a wonderful job with my submission of Canadian silver but their images are atrocious. This was a couple years...
AI is just going to make everything worse before it maybe makes anything better. "unique" "distinct" "rare" "valuable" - no, no, no, and no. But...
Post this in the World Coins section. There are people there who can read Chinese and Japanese who may know what this is. Weight and dimensions...
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The NGC lookups all say "contact customer service" so it appears that you have made them aware of it. Surprising that ICG gives a counterfeit a...
I remembered that David Lange wrote a series of articles for the Barber Coin Collectors' Society journal in 2022, so I dug them out. Martin Luther...
The tongue-in-cheek humor is especially funny because Buddy Ebsen had an amazing coin collection. He sold part of it in 1987 for $7.7 million....
David Lange wrote 3 or 4 books on the old coin boards and albums. Sadly it appears that after his passing, his website has gone away. A little...
It's OK if it doesn't arrive until after Christmas. Thanks....
Nothing to drool over but here are some semi-keys. Barber added an extra fold to the right ribbon end in 1901 so the second 1901-S below is...
What a great story. Those kids will remember it, even if they don't get the collecting bug. I think my "birthday" also dates to Thanksgiving...
I'd never seen it until last night when I looked up images, and yours was my first impression as well. Especially from distant images, it looks...
My grandmother, who compiled our genealogy, was quite proud of our ancestors' participation in the Indian Wars. That's a generic category but she...
I voted leave alone simply because the coins are 80+ years old and I feel like with proper storage it's not going to change that much in the...
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