When I was young, I fell in love with mercury dimes. In the early '60s, maybe 5% of dimes in circulation were mercury dimes. The barbershop in...
Here's the Amazon link......
Well, if you use the NGC magnify tool, you can get a clean picture and can clearly see that it's not an optical illusion. I'm wondering if it's an...
Optical illusion? I doubt it...did you click to magnify? The NGC coin looks like a blow-up doll (so I've been told). On the other hand, I agree,...
I can't complete my collection without one. :( [IMG]
I dabble with day-trading in the mornings and one of my news sources had an NGC ad showing an NGS-graded MS-62 1893-S Morgan Dollar (5743697-001)....
Thanks, Corgi! I see that it's $1500/oz in the 74th (2021) Edition. It's really buried in there!
I was thinking the same thing.
It's the 2021 edition! Is gold gonna fall by then?
Many focus strictly on a specific feature (steps, bell lines, bands, etc) rather than the overall Strike of the coin...which I think is the intent...
Ok...I'll admit that I didn't buy the 2021 Red Book for price accuracy...and, as a First Spouse collector, I may be a tad biased, BUT how can they...
Gold is less than $100 away from a new all-time high. I wonder how long it will take.
Is that Wheeling, WV?
That's pretty stupid...even for eBay. The other side is probably a carved up love token. On the other hand, the Seller has a 100% rating with 400+...
The point is...as the OP pointed out...toning can hide blemishes.
No arguments here! Early proofs with deep cameo frosting are true rarities! Once the Mint began trying to make all proofs DCAMS, they really made...
Have you seen silver proofs sets from the '90s? Back then, the Mint used a sandblasting process to produce fine, iridescent DCAM frosting. After...
That, too...but he purposely altered it to hide the harsh cleaning. It was obviously stored in a box of kitchen matches for a while....
Was airmail not an option?
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