This was tough to narrow down, but here are my top 10 favorite acquisitions from 2018: Hungary/Transylvania 1848E AU Ducat KM-2262 (1848)...
Buying raw coins on eBay gets a bad rap sometimes, but on occasion you can find a real diamond in the rough. If you've ever found an extreme...
I'm looking for someone in Hungary who can grade moderns well to purchase coins for me. Most of the coins I need will be easy to source there but...
I picked up this extremely off-center nickel recently. For those more knowledgeable with this type of error than I am, what's going on on the...
I have often heard people give the advice to new collectors to a series to buy the keys first, but the wisdom of this escapes me. With the poll...
Just picked this up today in a lot. I think this says year 5 10 2 Meiji? How do I get a Gregorian date from this? I found some charts, but I'm...
I've had great customer service from NGC over the years, but just the last year I've for the first time had several bad experiences. These are...
I was looking through NGC's world census for 19th century Austrian ducats, and I noticed one MSDPL coin in the census. I didn't realize NGC used...
Something I picked up recently from a German seller. The seller described it as an Austrian 20 Kreuzer single-sided probe incuse strike in brass:...
I stop in at my local bank every Friday. The tellers there hold any unusual coin or note deposits for me and I always take everything they have...
I've got a teller that's been enthusiastically putting older bills and unusual customer deposits of coins aside for me each week, and I want to...
The Austro-Hungarian 2 Corona was only minted for three years, making it a fairly short but enjoyable set to collect. I have recently completed my...
Anyone know what's going on with CollectiveCoin? It's been loading unpredictably for the past day or two and today it's been down for maintenance...
A new fake I haven't seem before. But a couple popped up on eBay. Sad to see the bid go even this high....
Are coronation issue ducats considered to be commemorative ducats (and therefore coins) or are they considered to be medals/jetons? Do they reside...
How do you all feel about mules? Are they errors, varieties, or types? Can they be all three depending on the circumstances of how and why they...
So I've got a 1926 NGC MS65 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle. It's in an NGC gen 9 slab with a low serial number. The slab is in pretty good shape, but...
Anyone going to the Whitman Expo this week? I'll be there on Friday.
In every catalog I've seen, not just Krause but Hungarian catalogs as well, the Hungarian 5 Korona (KM-488) is listed as one type 1900-1909,...
Many here and elsewhere seem to hold the belief that acetone can have an effect on the color of copper. I've also read that the apparent change in...
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