The $5 is one tiny rub away from a great coin. It was struck as an MS-67, but has a tiny rub in the obverse field. PCGS called it MS-61. Stacks’,...
Do you know that he “signed” his dies with a notch on 13th star on his silver and gold coins? The notch disappeared when he left the mint in 1817.
It’s an NGC MS-65 and is as nice in person as it is in the photo. Thanks!
You may as well if you are convinced that it 90% silver. It's the only way you are going to get big bucks for it as an off-metal piece.
The coin appears to be 1971-S 40% Proof Ike Dollar. Those coins were not sold in "mint packages" with other coins. They were sold as singles in a...
It has to be 40% silver clad. The core was 20% silver and 80% copper, but it frequently looks like silver. the two outer sides were 80% silver and...
I don't have much in the way of Prohibition tokens. The only token I have was from the 1888 presidential campaign. Clinton B. Fisk was the...
My collector’s mind runs in cycles. Since I collect by type and tend to “fly over” many different topics. I will get interested in some things and...
I agree with @JoshuaP completely. It might be ugly, but burying the truth does not erase the truth. Here are two examples. I remember that Rick...
A great many collectors are drawn to the 1907 High Relief $20 gold. I have called it the most common, very expensive U.S. coin. The mintage was...
I would say AU-55. I have a few pieces that are graded AU-58 which are nicer.
Since I don't look at full step Jefferson Nickels, I can't express an opinion about them. I can tell you, that a significant number of Proof...
Please don’t confuse the issue. There were very rare SMS coins in 1964 and lots of them from 1965 to ‘67, before 1961. I think the person who...
No. Mint sets were issued in 1961. The date has nothing to do with it. I can't show you a mint set from the era because I don't collect them. If...
That is a Proof set, not a Mint Set. One would expect that Proofs would be about nice as the mint could do at that time. That was not always the...
Heritage has something similar with its proxy bid system, but it doesn’t screw people the way the eBay system does.
Good! Go ahead and buy the great coins from eBay. Life is too short to spend time researching prices, strategizing bids and posting fair to strong...
Here are pictures of this "unreasonable facsimile." They even went to the trouble of giving it a lettered edge. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I might be wrong, but I think that both of the gold pieces have been cleaned with an abrasive. The fields appear to have lines in them that run in...
The collection was a complete old commemorative coin type set, and all of the coins were NGC graded. The quality ranged from pretty nice, which...
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