I was just looking through a roll of junk halves and found this 1958 Type II Franklin. In that condition, I wonder if it has any particular premium?
There is nothing that is particularly rare in that group, and most of that stuff is worth a dime or less. By far the most valuable coin in that...
I think this may be the Nolan Ryan card that caused the comparisons with the coin:...
There are ways of making money in coin collecting, but you can't just dive in head-first and expect to make a killing. You really have to do your...
My first guess would be, chemistry class experiment.
I don't have any financial motivation to resubmit any of my old rattlers, since in all cases the potential price increase from an upgrade wouldn't...
Just curious, but are you seeing a lot of coins in old rattlers where there is a substantial price difference with the next grade? All of the old...
With a lot of classic commemoratives, there's not a whole lot of price difference between say, MS-62 and MS-63, so it often wouldn't be worth it...
You got a more than 150-year-old one-year type half dollar in what looks like VG condition for about half of the Coin Values price, so I think...
A few comments: One avoirdupois ounce of copper is the equivalent of a little less than 10 pre-1982 cents. One avoirdupois pound of copper is...
It's mostly a matter of having done these before, knowing that certain letters appear much more often in English than others, and having a good...
I believe I have found a 1959 Doubled reverse die, Breen 5251:
Simple enough explanation: High school student, after having fun with it in shop class (shaving and wirebrushing it), decides to spend it because...
I'm 95% sure your coin has been tampered with outside of the Mint, most likely in a machine shop or high school shop class. For example, I think...
That's nothing new. In the '80s when I started making large (for me, at the time) mail order purchases, I would almost always get stuff that was...
It looks to me like someone might have rubbed it on the sidewalk.
One ounce of copper? That's 10 pre-1982 pennies.
I think I might have a 1959 Type II Unc in my mint set
Well, that could be. You've dealt with him, so you know what he's like better than I do.
When, exactly, is the show?
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