I had been looking for a well struck, high grade Capped Bust Half Dime (Type 1829 to 1837) for a few years. I could never find the right one at...
I have been looking for a Proof Trade Dollar for some time. When I was a dealer, the other dealers always wanted too much. I wanted a piece that...
I suppose if I called it an AU-55, a CAC sticker would be appropriate for an AU-53 graded piece. Still I am surprised that CAC beaned it. They...
Some people collect gold CAC slabs and pay a big premium for them, even if they are in NGC holders. The PCGS-CAC combination is the gold standard...
I think that the gold content and the price the British had to pay for the U.S. gold pieces were the determining factors. The “old tenor gold...
Overall, the 1834 crosslet 4 is rarer. From the aspect of preservation, the 1838-D is rarer because only one or two others have graded MS-63....
I don’t know that we ever got to that one. He had friend who was bringing to coins to him. One day the friend to me that he had passed on. The...
Thank you for noticing. I paid way too much for that coin because it's over graded. It used to be in an AU holder, where it belonged, but a...
Given the bad pictures, my response is "Run, Forest, run!" Bad photos are the hallmark of pervors of counterfeits. The 1885-CC silver dollar is...
I voted AU-55. The strike is pretty decent for this type. Many of them have die sinking in front the face of Ms. Liberty, which I find...
The reverse line is a deal killer for me. Having been on both sides of the table, marks like that are a prime excuse for dealers to pass on buying...
Since I have opened up my collecting horizons to British coins, I have gotten some new insights into why of the monetary problems existed in...
The Judd numbers are J-67 to 71 with gold piece assigned to 67. The Readers Digest version of the history was that the Secretary of the Treasury...
Yea, that toning would probably be worth a few hundred dollars to somebody, but not to me. The toning may have been put there to hide the cleaning.
I believe that the Walking Liberty Half Dollar was the best designed and most practical coin among the "American Renaissance" pieces that were...
The marks to the right of the eagle's neck are definitely PMD. The raised marks to the left of the shield might be die polishing.
I have one pattern because I like gold dollars and found this one interesting. Restrikes were of made from these dies for many years. Unlike some...
The United States Sanitary Commission was an organization to raise funds to supply soldiers with medical and cleaning supplies. The way diseases...
The "SPOOT" token is supposed to be common, but all but one of the examples I have owned had issues. I sold that one good piece when I was a...
This piece was issued around the time when there was a peace conference held in Washington, DC in February 1861 between representatives of the...
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