I will warn you. They are harder to read than the the Roman coins. They have a somewhat different alphabet, and late die state pieces can be a...
The velvet in the box could have done that, but yes, the polishing brigade may have also been involved.
I think that star coins were struck first, and then the raised star on the die was ground off of it. The star on the half dollar has contours in...
For those who are not familiar with the Grant commemorative half dollar and $1 gold coins, here they are. The star was a gimmick that the original...
The nickel alloy is the hardest of all of the circulating U.S. coins. Therefore the coins last longer. Add to that the fact that it contains no...
If that is really what you got for a discounted 1/10 ounce gold coin price, you got the steal of the week. I just hope the person who sold it
Every source I have read about the 1066 comet that appears on the Bayeux Tapestry states that it was Halley’s Comet. The astrological calculations...
The early half dimes grabbed my attention when I was a young collector. I could not afford them either. All of the Liberty Cap Half Cents I saw...
Here is Gallery Mint 1796 half dollar that I bought years ago. [ATTACH] Here is an example of the real thing, which grades Fine-15. [ATTACH]
I would vote fake. It does not look right. $263 is a ridiculously low price for a 1794 half dollar. It almost doesn't matter what the grade is if...
I have had this penny, which is usually attributed to William the Conqueror, for some time. It is nice, but some experts have said that it might...
Yes, I feel the same way. Years ago I bought the Gallery Mint copy of the 1796 half dollar because I could not afford the real thing at the time....
It becomes much less obvious when the crooks put “wear” on the copies and then corrode them like the “1796 cent” Jack posted above this post. In...
How much money are you saving by doing this “cloak and dagger” stuff? I stick to the usual buying and selling channels and don’t have to worry...
What era was that? I can find many women from the 20th and 21st centuries that look better. We can go back to Lillian Gish.
None of these coins should fool anyone who is familiar with the real thing. There are dies varieties, but after 1794, the design became more...
Sorry, but no. Note the marks in front of the face and the neck and cheek just in back of the mouth. An MS-66 is almost perfect. You really have...
If they all look like the woman on the token, I think I’ll pass.
You might get it upgraded by a point or two, but it probably isn’t worth the time and expense. Sometimes a coin that looks like it’s under graded...
I agree. It has a rub in the fields which takes it out of the Mint State category. The rub is really obvious on the reverse above the eagle....
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