That is a really nice Monroe. You should not have to upgrade that one. The Monroe is rated as one of the ugliest commemorative half dollars....
"Superb parking lot find! Truly unique! Run over multiple times by a big, scary dump truck with 8 wheels!” It may also have been held on grinder...
1796 is one of the very cool dates among early U.S. coins. It was the only year in which it is possible to collect a year set of coins in all 10...
I’ve seen these offers of old gold $10 and $20 coins at slightly less than melt. It used to indicate that a correction was in the offing. Will...
It might be a fun hand me down for a young collector, but don't spend big bucks on nice ones. When I was a dealer I bought some of the Proof...
In 1797 and again in 1804, the British issued an emergincy issue of silver coins that converted from another country to English with a...
A couple chop marks is okay for a piece in VF or so, if you want a piece that has them. I don’t care for them on high grade, Mint State pieces....
If you had the cash, I think I would have used that instead. When I looked this morning, gold was up to $2,871 an ounce :woot:, and platinum was...
I might add that the third party grading services seldom assign the grade “MS-60.” It’s almost always MS-61 or 62.
When you order something in MS-60, that is pretty much all you can expect. I’ve found only a few older coins from the early 1800s and late 1700s...
It’s not too expensive now. They don’t have any excuses because digital photography has been around for a long time. One would think that they...
The Lilly Collection was from the drug company family. They donated the collection of gold coins, which included one of the three 1822 half...
I know of an honest dealer who won’t ship to Littleton because their grading standards are to the point where it’s like cherry picking. I’ve never...
At least they would still exist, and we would have some idea of how they looked. Now they are probably all gone. The Smithsonian is the national...
Yes, it could be. The “common knowledge” is that the government recovered them all from the mint employees who were supposed to have gotten them...
If you could tell the difference between his creation and Brown theft coins.
What is someone issued a 1913 Liberty Nickel between 1913 and 1920 when the real ones surfaced? If they were are good as Carr, how could you tell...
I don’t know that I would call it “good news.” These things are NOT coins. The legal definition of a coin is a piece that is recognized as legal...
Part of the problem is that these companies have advertising costs plus an expectation for REASONABLE mark-up. Maybe after all of the advertising...
I disagree with this completely. What you have is a fantasy piece, which in its best form is a novodel. That’s an official piece that was made...
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