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The mint produced cameos with the earliest strikes off of most of the dies of most dates in the Franklin series. Unfortunately, the numbers are...
Title of this post? Fill in the blanks . . . " _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ " As a regular coin buyer on the floor of a local...
Nominally AU50, net XF45 for the marks on jaw and shield.
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It's a real drag, as it is bad apples like this who have driven honest dealers away from dealing coins to Minnesotans.
The sad part is that many will not even know they are victims until they badly need the money a very long time from now.
As will any fakes that go unidentified beforehand. Know what you are bidding on.
I hope none of you fell victim to this parasite . . . https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/burnsville-coin-dealer-indicted-fraud-scheme
20 & 45
It's quite easy, really (tongue-in-cheek) . . . you just identify those who lack the ambition to cart their coins off to the supermarket, and...
Acid.
I'll have to check my records to see if it's the same coin.
This could well be a coin I sold several years back. I also was in awe of the fact that it was so well centered . . . and it also was in an ANACS...
This is true. While the concentration drops with time, some will always remain as long as the holders are not chemically destroyed by a reaction...
Spanish, and it doesn't. Then again, I don't collect ancients or foreign.
Cool coin . . .
The disappointment is understandable, but so is the net grading which, by the way, I believe is for poor strike, and not for the mark at the "A".
In my opinion, the half eagle lacks the mint luster and detail retained by the quarter eagle.
The 1913 $2.50
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