I purchased this note at the FUN show. It has a denomination of 12 1/2 cents or a "bit." That might seem like odd amount today, but in 19th...
I completed my Indian Cent set at FUN, at least as far as I'm going which is one of each date plus the 1908 and 1909 San Francisco pieces. Here is...
I have owned this one for many years. It's the only example of the type that I have owned in 60+ years of collecting. [ATTACH]
Here's what is probably a real "racketeer nickel." It's easy to gold plate a liberty yesterday, and call it one. What you need is a gold plated...
I am courious. When will we see you at another FUN show?
The small cents did have limited legal tender status, but it wasn’t much. I think it was 10 cents at one point, and then it went down to 4 cents....
This year cents were the main items on my shopping list. I am trying to build a date set of cents from 1793 to 2025. The year 1856 is covered in...
Some Proof coins from the 1936 to 1942 are weakly struck because of excessive die polishing which removed some of the design detail. This is...
They may have been struck twice many years ago, but not now. They are struck once under higher pressure at a lower rate per minute with specially...
I bought my first $10 Indian when I was a junior in high school in the mid 1960s. I paid $43 for it. I bought it from Stacks’ in New York. For $3...
I am not familiar with this coin, but I'm pretty sure that it won't get a straight grade. Something was done at 12 o'clock on the obverse and...
I think that it's more likely that it was dug out of the ground.
All I have are denarii. This one is not very pretty, but the image on the reverse in interesting. Imagine trying to get a team of lions to pull...
The sharpness is AU-55, but I'm not a fan of the obverse. It looks like it's damaged with an improper dip.
These coins were saved by the roll. In the 1970s, you could not get any more than face value for them. I watched them go begging a club auctions.
Here's one I would like to own. It's a Twenty Cent Piece that marked up to avoid having it pass as a quarter. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I had a chance...
Your response is mostly correct. Just hope that the Chinese don't get involved with copying ancient coins or anything else. It has become a...
NGC slabs ancient coins and is doing a credible job the Roman pieces. I have a couple. The big one is a high grade Gordian II denarius.
I don't have an 1892 dated sovereign, but here are two pieces from the era. 1887 sovereign [ATTACH] 1897 sovereign [ATTACH]
To follow up on what @paddyman98 said, here is a example of extreme die breaks. You will note that the lines are raised because the metal flowed...
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