PCGS might consider these to still grade 70, but you may have a mighty hard time convincing someone to pay a price consistent with the grade on...
Please, do not ever heat acetone! I don't care what you think you know, you are flirting with an explosion if you heat acetone. Getting crud off...
Typical homeowner's insurance will not cover your collection unless you purchase an additional rider and this can be very expensive. The best...
They look spectacular! I would be quite happy to find coins like that, too. Also, one can find similar toning in Capital Plastics holders.
Since you are building a type set you will need relatively few coins to fill out the set and your storage requirements should be minimal. If you...
The coin pictured is in an NGC holder, not a PCGS holder. If this happened to me, I would keep it in the holder and immediately sell it since you...
Most of my collection consists of slabbed coins, but oddly enough I own a complete Ike set that is raw and in a black Capitol Plastics holder. It...
The pieces look significantly better with the larger images, but the Trade dollar, Draped Bust dollar and 8R still appear to have had mightily...
The Darby piece is very cool. It looks beautiful.
The Trade dollar, Seated dollar and Draped Bust dollar look mighty funky as does the 8R.
I guess it depends upon what one uses as the definition of a sleeper. Is it a coin with fundamental reason to have a better financial future than...
It looks glossy, which makes me think it was either cleaned or that it was in a piece of jewelry such as a keychain. I have owned several...
At $10 you are fine. Heck, the coin was only priced at about EF45.
Connecticut. [IMG]
I love WQs. They are an absolutely spectacular series to collect. They come in a wide array of colors, if one likes toning, due to the...
Sorry about that!:o
I would love to buy an AU 1839-O RE half dollar for $1,000 or thereabouts, but unfortunately it costs about $1,500 for an EF45 if you are looking...
The spread is dynamic and can change mightily. I don't know where you are getting your values from, but at current spot price of $1,587.20 per...
Thank you all for the kind words. Lance has given a very nice writeup on roller marks and his 1839 shows them quite well near the top of the...
Perhaps it is the image technique, but it looks like a possibly recolored AU with bad surfaces.
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