First of all, we'd need to see a picture of it in order to determine whether it's really a mint error.
It's probably not the only one -- unfortunately, with the sweetheart deal the government cut with the owner of the coin while the legal action was...
That's the spirit! :D One thing I sometimes do is look through auctions for PCI-graded Morgans. Once upon a time, for at least part of their...
Most of what I hear is that NGC is tightening up a bit, actually. Anyway, for the most part, the issue comes into play with "hypergraded"...
David Hall may be right. I've seen WAY too many coins that depress me because they have been cleaned. While it can happen to any coin, for some...
Certainly you didn't get swindled. For seven bucks, what the heck -- if you like the coin, it's a nice pickup. :D
To be brutally honest, Numistrust (NTC) is considered in the lower tier of grading services in terms of how the market values the holder, and I'm...
See, that's one of the things that draws me to this hobby. I'm something of a history and genealogy buff, and when I see an old, worn coin, it...
Ha! In our household, I have to remind my wife that at least *my* hobbies hold their value over time, and probably appreciate in value in the...
Yeah. True. My dad has been a collector since he found all kinds of interesting stuff in circulation while stationed in Puerto Rico in the early...
Recently, as far as proof sets in general go, the silver sets have all run laps around the clad sets even after accounting for the difference in...
The Red Book has been, and still is, a great guide for getting the high-level details about U.S. coin series, and contains more about colonials...
But she can still say, "you paid *how much*? For a little round piece of metal? :D
(sigh) I wish my wife -- also named Susan, by the way -- talked coins to me like that... :D
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And while they're on backorder, the Mint should be selling more 2004 mint sets shortly. In other words, they haven't made all the MS-68s they're...
The bottom line is that virtually all kinds of cleanings where chemical agents are used will leave visible evidence of damage to a coin and, for...
The price of gold has relatively little to do with the price of, say, a PCGS/NGC MS-63 St. Gaudens. Most numismatic gold now has a considerable...
Five cent pieces were made of silver from 1794 to 1873, when they were called half dimes. The nickel five-cent piece was first minted in...
Well, I know this isn't what you mean, but there were a lot of silver quarters made in 1965 -- it's just that they are dated 1964. It wasn't...
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