All the certified examples I see of this coin on the Internet are high priced because of some obscure variety that doesn't interest me at all....
1916-7 McKinley commemorative gold dollar. [ATTACH] McKinley Library. [ATTACH]
There are several heads that appeared on the 1794 half cents. I only have one of them, which is not the one that was used on the piece above that...
They can tell by what is left of the head. That can only be a 1794 half cent. The 1795 to ‘97 pieces have a smaller, thinner head.
It looks to be somewhere in the AU-50 to 55 range. It appears that there is a friction in the fields which precludes Mint State. Here is an...
When it came to collecting sets, I came to the same conclusion as the poster in the OP, but all series except the few that interested me. Odd...
It's not exactly a monument, but it's close. It's the ruin of the church at Jamestown, Virginia. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here's a picture I took of...
I like this With Arrows Half Dollar, but the purists don't because it's been dipped. [ATTACH]
I have been drawn to 20 cents pieces since high school. This 1876 is not the most valuable one I have, but it is the best preserved example in my...
Yes, and therein lies the market for them at sometimes stupid (In my opinion) prices. As a friend of my father said when he was told that people...
The 1880 gold dollar has a mintage of 1,600, but with about 950 survivors, it's not as rare as it might seem. It's long been popular because of...
Lead is softer than gold. Since lead was frequently used as the "under metal" for fake gold coins (dense, heavy for its volume), the teeth marks...
No. Mint State and Proof copper coins are graded on two levels. First there is the wear (or lack there of) grade. Then there is the color grade. A...
That Statue of Liberty silver dollar looks like it's had more done to it than just wear. It looks like it's been through a rock tumbler and dipped...
After the government changed the reverse of the bullion gold coins, I have been looking to buy a type set, hoping the bullion price would go down....
No I didn’t “do good.” I’m just old and had interest in U.S. gold coins in the 1960s.
I have to post this one. It's the only "old Proof gold coin" I have in my collection. The Type III gold dollars have the highest Proof mintages of...
The Mexicans did a good job at making a coin that was only 10% silver look like silver, at least for a while.
You have got to be kidding. The 1795 half eagle listed for $75 in Fine and $150 in the first edition of The Red Book. That coin, which is an...
They show up in major auctions, but not that often even at major show, which Baltimore is. The only other one I had seen at a show had once been...
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