Welp, it sold for $43,312.50 with the buyers fee tacked on. The last time it was publicly sold at auction, it went for $48,468.75. By my...
1815/2 is the big one, with a mintage of only 47,150. It’s the only year that the capped bust half dollar mintage was less than the quarter...
That was more difficult to read than it needed to be. I think the median 8th grader could produce a better piece of writing than whoever wrote...
Oh no, why did it have to be a large date 1828 dime? Though I will commend whoever cut it because that is a remarkably straight cut when you...
Silver Eagles had reverse proofs for 2006-P, 2011-P, 2012-S, and 2013-W. There’s a 2006-W reverse proof $50 gold coin. There are also reverse...
Very interesting! Thanks for providing the rest of the story.
Periodically checking Amazon listings for certain numismatic books can sometimes pay off. Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to find a copy...
Some other pickup points: if you can see the rivets on the shield, it’s almost always a 1917. If the details on the faces of the walls are...
I’m not too keen on letting that scratch on the bust slide, but I’ve seen worse. Case in point:...
You can find plenty of examples of grading services not wanting to be too liberal with throwing around “details” designations, but sometimes you...
I’d say VF30 for the S-289 and VG10 for the S-288. Both look very nice. How many of the other varieties/dates for this series do you have?
@dlp_dlp21 It sounds like your sets are for the birth years of family members. This link has the type of holders I believe ldhair is referring to....
I definitely agree! The dimes are far less common than the half dollars, but since they aren’t collected nearly as heavily, they aren’t too...
For me it’s capped bust quarters. It can take a while between purchases, though, because not many coins fit my target (low enough grade to be...
I agree with JR-3.
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