The best thing you can do is to know everything about coins and the hobby-industry and even then there is no guarantee.
Unfortunately, there is no general rule to follow for this question.
Since you are attempting to learn the look of an AT coin, it might be instructive to also learn the look of what is generally considered an NT...
It may be worth a little less than the coins if sold individually, but it would likely liquidate quicker, which might give you a tradeoff of...
The 1939 WQ might be the first CAC gold sticker coin posted obverse and reverse within a thread, but my avatar is also a CAC gold sticker coin and...
At least some banks will order them for you free of charge.
It was a darn good steak, too!
The 1877-S quarter might be counterfeit, but even if genuine it has been harshly cleaned.
Go to ebay, you will find plenty of raw coins that are artificially toned.
It's the process of extraction. Not for me.:rolling:
By the way, cpm9ball can tell you that I only own one Morgan and I believe he thinks it is overgraded by a point or two.
Very nice coins and I'm really digging that 1896.
That's a very cool 1948 Franklin; they don't usually come with clear colors on them.
By the way, I was probably too strong in my comment that you were incorrect regarding key date Barber half dollars since my statement was written...
Larry, do you still have that 1916 matte proof Lincoln?
I don't know that there is a hard and fast rule for what would constitute a key date. Your example of the 1909-S VDB Lincoln is an excellent one...
Don't sell that 1963-D Franklin short, physics-fan3.14. It's a wonderful coin.
It took me perhaps five years to put this set together in original VF with a few F or EF coins in the mix. The time to really buy these was 2005...
The branch on the reverse is an olive branch. You are incorrect when you give a blanket statement that there are no key or semi-key dates within...
A roll search is simply going to your local bank and asking for rolls of coins to bring home to search for better dates and/or silver. If you...
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