Yes, the grading services can say “no grade” one time and straight grade the next. I’ve had experience with that, but in this case, the cleaning...
I think you mom may have gone over the piece with silver polish, going mostly in an up and down direction. I seen fine lines running north and...
I received a National Geographic publication, “Hidden London, Digging Through the City’s Buried Past” for Christmas. On page 39, it cited “Roman...
I don't like New York City any more, although I lived close to there in the 1970s. Crime, hotel and meal costs are a huge concern. For those...
NGC does a very nice job with grading Roman imperial coins. But since I like my coins raw, I don't have a lot of them. I do have a couple of...
I would like to get a coin for each of the British kings that are on my list, Edmund the Magnificent (939 to 946) and Eadwig (955 to 959) and...
I would like to finish a date set of the 1839 to 1857 cents in the near future. The varieties are too minor for me, and I've learned from my half...
Every old coin like this has a value and a price. As long as you did not overpay for it, it is a perfectly reasonable and enjoyable addition to...
19 volumes of this series. [ATTACH]
I have 19 of them. They really are bargains because a lot of the information in them can be found in other books that cost a lot more. There must...
This was the most expensive coin I bought this year. [ATTACH] I bought this because finding the Flowing Hair type half dollar with this much...
It happened 20+ years ago, but it was a domestic fraudster who started his own grading company with fake PCGS slabs. PCGS put them out of business...
You can get them in copper (actually bronze) if you buy a 2009 Proof set or the Lincoln Chronicles Set.
You are correct when you say that gold is gold, but many U.S. collectors are drawn to U.S. coins are willing to more for it. It’s illogical, but...
I was an active collector when the government was selling the GSA Morgan Dollars. They generated a lot of interest, and they received a great deal...
I don't really want to buy any coins whose value is totally tied to their gold content. I have bought samples of them in the past because they...
Historically, it has also worked for collectors such as I. The trouble is you have to buy reasonably good coins from the start. I just went over...
Resign immediately. My short term record has not been very good, except when I was dealer. Then I was buying stuff that I could turn over within...
I'm not sure that the OP coin came from the U.S. Mint. There are sill issues with the "9" in the date. These photos are from Coinfacts. [ATTACH]...
Here is an MS-65 graded piece from PCGS Coinfacts. Yes, this fake is scary. [ATTACH]
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