Does this dime look cleaned? It looks to me like a nice BU piece except for the dirt in some of the crevases. However, for that dirt to have...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fake-1856-Flying-Eagle-Cent_W0QQitemZ190266724893QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCoins_US_Individual?hash=item190266724893&_trksid=p3286.c0....
HA Auction in Dallas, October 23, 2008. This gem is graded...well, I'll play Guess The Grade. Post your opinions, without looking it up....
Reading the thread "NGC versus PCGS" got me thinking. It's apparent that the companies aren't consistent in their grading or their ability to...
This was graded MS-63. To me, it looks like some of the hair lines are slightly flat and the top of the eagle's head and wings look a bit rubbed....
For instance, Today I found out that some memorial cents were apparently made with zinc coated with brass instead of with copper. According to...
[IMG]Did any of you millionaires get in on the Naftzger large cents auction? One has to wonder where coins of this age and quality came from....
Has anybody ever seen this before? There is a definite ring around Lincoln's statue. It passes behind his back and legs so it must have been cut...
Sometimes they are (or were) not as bad as their current reputation. http://www.coinlink.com/News/counterfeits-fraud/when-fakes-become-collectable/
This isn't my coin and I don't even know whose it is. I found it during an internet search. It's supposedly a 1965 Washington quarter of the...
Try this quiz. These questions refer ONLY to regularly circulating, post-Colonial coins, and do not include commeratives, pattern or bullion...
Described on ebay as VG+ and actually bid up to $200 with 21 bids - and a day to go... [IMG]
Inside a Chinese counterfeiting factory http://coins.about.com/od/worldcoins/ig/Chinese-Counterfeiting-Ring/
I know that grading now is done with numbers, but there are still descriptive words attached. In this case, I think it's gotten a little out of...
I got a few "unsearched" penny rolls from ebay recently and did get several keys and semi keys; enough to make the venture worthwhile. Such as...
This 3.7 million dollar coin has been graded at PR-62 which, to me seems generous. It actually shows some wear so maybe AU-60 might have been...
Does the lack of detail caused by the filled die decrease the grading? Except for that, I'd say it's an EF-40. It is identifiable as an 1887....
On a lark, I bought several rolls of Lincoln cents that were advertised to have been "Unsearched by Me [the seller]". They came in the old style...
This dime was offered on ebay as a 1942/1 but didn't sell. It does appear that there may be something other than a 4 under the 4 and something...
Usually you can't find anything spectacular, and that is the case here - except for the two 20 cent pieces; one 1875-S and one 1875-CC - which...
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