It will be interesting to see if there is enough demand to make any money for the charity. The enabling legislation requires that the mint cover...
I know a dealer who did this for several years. He has a good eye and he went through just about every other dealer's inventory, one by one. He...
Go read eBay's terms of service, you won't find the word CARE in there anywhere. They care only to the extent somebody holds their feet to the...
If you assume your brain is a turnip, and buy at blue sheet, sell at grey sheet, you can be a coin dealer with no knowledge and less skill. May...
Well... there is a difference between removing metal and "removing measurable metal" (with scales of reasonable precision). Everytime the coin...
Grey sheet is not buy prices. Grey sheet prices are the "sight seen" prices of actual sales, so typically high dealer-to-dealer sales. The blue...
Caveat Emptor - let the buyer beware.
If you are going to use a cell phone camera, please go to the craft store and buy a piece of black foam as your background.
Isn't it just lovely, then, that nobody died and made you king of the universe? You are CERTAINLY entitled to collect your way and what YOU want...
Numista lists these are Features Country Switzerland Years 1850-1859 Value 20 Centimes / Rappen / Centesimi (0.20 CHF) Metal Billon Weight 3.25 g...
I'm in the AU family, probably AU50 because of the hit. For circulated grades, I look to the highest points. On the obverse, it's the five...
Most likely, since it's a commemorative, the charity had input into the design and wanted to stress their present mission of helping entire...
That's only true if different dies were used for proof and business strikes. For many small mintage coins (e.g. the 1863ff 3 cent silver) it's...
When you start getting elements of the obverse into the reverse die and vice versa, it's called PIDT (Progressive Indirect Die Transfer) - 3 cent...
There's enough dings that it looks like an ordinary coin that was plated. If the color is really gold, I could see it as a q&d test for gold...
I hate when my post duplicates...
It depends on the series and timeframe. Early proofs were (double) struck on the medal press while circulation coins were (single) struck on...
The mint really has very little freedom. The design is often specified in the legislation (e.g. the Apollo 11 coin for 2019). The legends and...
Certainly enough room for several dozen stickers...
Somebody paid to have three of them slabbed (check the cert#s at NGC -001 -003 and -005)
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