You have to bid more. Period. There isn't a shill, just a smarter ebay buyer.
To put this into perspective..... I look at approx. 50,000 banknotes per week. I find on the average 1 good collectible note every two to three...
There are a lot of threads pro and con regarding the cleaning of coins. Most cleaning is destructive especially to MS coins and proof coins....
Y'know what's fun to do?...... get some tin snips and cut up a few coins and put them back into circulation. :yes:
As stated. Do not clean coins. And pleeeeeeease do not use a rock tumbler regardless of what you read.
PMD. Hacked at with shears or pruners or whatever. Welcome to Coin Talk!:hail:
That is the result of acid. I have a few coins like that and several have been posted in threads on Coin Talk in the past. The rippling orange...
Have you got a pic we can see?
Is there also doubling on the letters above? It resembles md. If the letters have md, I would say it isn't an RPM.
I was listening to a commentary on a radio talk show about news stories for magazines and newspapers from a writer/submitter. With the advent of...
This is the type of "error" typically listed:...
I don't have the bookmark any longer but their name was something like "studio...." something. I did a quick look through ebay but couldn't find...
You gotta add a few wizards, trolls, weapons and levels to make it interesting.:D
Both are die chips. The die is a reverse image of the coin so everything that appears above the surface of the coin is below the surface of the...
There are far too many distractions for kids today. Technology has created text messaging/video game playing zombies out of the young generation...
Field. Machine doubling. Only worth a cent.
The quarter at the bottom has MD machine doubling. Again, no premium for that. I'm not sure what you're talking about "rocks at the bottom" but...
Die chips (blobs), die cracks and stuck through grease coins are common and rarely get any kind of premium.
I love ancients! The idea of owning a circulated coin that 2000 years old or more is amazing. I metal detect and there are coins that I find that...
coin flip: [IMG] card stock (as Pilkenton said) like an index card.
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