Nay. Just another gimmick to get your money. I would rather have a old British coin.
I bought this 1838 half dime and an 1846 large cent in Good from my mother's cleaning lady. They are both screwed up because I cleaned them when I...
It's near zero for me. I put them in coin a plastic coin tube holder to be rolled up and taken to the bank. The trouble is I handle so few coins,...
I don’t worry myself about it. If the coins tone, they tone. Life is to short. I keep my coins in climate controlled areas and hope for the best....
The lettering is sharp, but the surfaces look granular which would indicate a casting. This would have been a tough one for me to spot, but...
They are more affordable, and if you are a collector, are a way to get an annual U.S. gold coin for the least amount of money. Unfortunately,...
I had my core collection graded in the early 2000s, which was something like 50 coins. When I was a dealer, most of the coins I bought and sold...
The mint employees hated working with the copper-nickel planchets which were the base for the copper-nickel Flying Eagle and Indian Cents. The...
[ATTACH] Here is one more classic Robert Lovett piece, the 1860 business card. This piece features the "French liberty cap" design which appeared...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] No L, Bronze, which is a very minor type. [ATTACH] I bought and sold this 1877 when I was a dealer. I bought it raw from a...
The Marshall House token goes with the story of Elmer Ellsworth. He was clerk in Lincoln's law firm, and was the first Union officer to die during...
I think I have a couple of other Robert Lovette items, but here's the one I can get at easily. [ATTACH] Here is the Marshall House token....
Yes, buying for foreign dealers, even the really good ones, is expensive and sometimes nerve racking. The exception for me has been the British...
It’s interesting, but not on my list. The only place for me win would have these would be at auction. I don’t have good luck in auctions. So no,...
And then you get into the issue of people mixing up the coins with similar sizes and getting “cheated” as a result. I heard the grumbling when the...
If you want to know the value of that coin, you need to grade and then net grade it. The sharpness grade falls in the Ch VF to EF-40 range. The...
The public has had a long tradition of preferring paper to coins. I can’t see $5, $10 and $20 coins getting a lot of use. In addition, each...
Add to that the No Stars half dime and dime which were “baby Gobrecht Dollars.”
Charles I was beheaded, but his son, Charles II knew how to avoid such problems. He didn’t tangle with Parliament and enjoyed to prestige of...
Why would we bring back the half dime? It was too small to be practical when it was issued from 1795 to 1873. A cent is worth nothing. A half...
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