This 1869 is a better fake than the 1870. The counterfeiter fell down with denticles, which they often do. The fade away at the top of the obverse...
This 1870 Cent is a pretty bad copy as shown by @kountryken's post. Here is the not so good copy, and a piece I bought with similar sharpness....
Here is the groat in my collection. [ATTACH]
I grade like an American collector. The sharpness grade is EF, but it’s been cleaned with hairlines, and it has the edge issue. Using American...
It has been my experience that the 1802 and 1803 cents are the most common dates among the early cents from 1793 to 1814. These dates are often...
The 1801 Three Errors cent is an example of the low moral at the mint. Congress was still pushing to close the facility and it’s location was in...
The reverse is often worn and incomplete and missing on the Liberty Cap Large Cents. The reason is that the lettering is in low relief, and there...
Yea, PCI instead of ICG. My bad.
The 1893-P is a semi-key date.
I would say that it meets the grade and no more. “Hallmark” was the name of this company when Dave Bowers was involved with it. My experience...
Your right. I was thinking of the coins they found at the Jamestown site an wrote Williamsburg. The coins at Jamestown are in the museum. They are...
The 1800 large cent is not a rarity, but it is seen far less often than the later dates, especially the 1802 and 1803. It is also hard to find in...
The fact that the coin predates the town by three generations does not mean much. The colonists used whatever money they could get, and a silver...
I am generally not a fan of EAC grading because it is useless for commercial purposes. You can dump on the term commercial, but when it comes time...
There are very few instances where the EAC grade matches the NGC or PCGS grade in an EAC grade based auction, even if the coin has a CAC...
The EAC people grade it AU. I am sure that it will bring over $1 million if it comes up in a major auction.
AI is like any other computer program. If you put garbage in, you get garbage out. It is only bigger and more sophisticated.
The 1821 and the 1823 are the two "key dates" among the Matron Head cents (1816 to 1839). I paid a fairly high price for this 1821. It is graded...
[ATTACH] Low Relief 1907 St. Gaudens [ATTACH] This was my first double eagle. I bought while I was in high school. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
The 1799 cent is the rarest date in the entire cent series from 1793 to date. Knowledge of the rarity of this issue dates back to the 1820s....
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