Quite a bit red. I missed the 3-legged Buffalo. I'll go back and take another look. Is this guy actually trying to sell these coins?
DDT was banned in 1972, duck-and-cover in my town was basically transformed into tornado drills after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis,...
My house was bought for $8,000 in the early '60s and sold for $24,000 in 1979. It was close to all schools, as well as downtown shopping. While it...
I agree that the coins look unnatural, even the silver ones. A couple of things that struck me about them were their uniformity, regardless of the...
There was a coin shortage during the Civil War and people eagerly accepted coins when they were offered. Given the small size of the 3-cent coin,...
I looked at all of those coins and you are right-- it is disturbing.
Weigh it if you can-- 90% halves weigh 12.5 grams, and 40% halves weigh 11.5 grams.
Even with this YouTube connection, I got a message saying that The Orchard Music, WMG, and/or INgrooves are blocking my access to this video...
The blue color of the photos is kind of funky. Could you post some pictures in natural color?
I got a message saying that I was not allowed to view the video from my area. Guess I'm on the wrong side of the tracks.
In my neck of the woods in 1970, $15,000/year would have been a really good money-- much more than my family was bringing in. That was also about...
Nice coin to get in change! From the photo I can't really tell if there's enough detail in the diamonds to make it to EF, but it certainly seems...
Perhaps that could explain why the coin was so harshly cleaned (to remove the gilt)? But this contemporary counterfeit doesn't seem to have a...
It looks like it may a contemporary counterfeit. Apparently there were some counterfeiting operations in Russia at the time that were using...
My guess would be eBay China.
A comparison with some of my ANACS slabs of the same type indicate that the 6's are wrong. The tops of the 6's on mine (which I received directly...
Oh, my, that seller really doesn't have a clue. So what would happen if I were the winning bidder for lot #270800524453, which is described as 5...
If it's a Chinese fake, made with base metals, and it brings in $30 for the "melt value", a mass production could bring in hundreds of thousands...
It looks like there are some bag marks on the hair, and just above the "I" in "IN" (hidden by the toning). In addition, it looks like there are...
It could well be a fake. I had attributed the mushiness of the lettering to the hardness of the platinum and the 1861 coining technology....
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