This is a bit of a matter of definition. If by "metal" you only mean actual metal, that's one thing, but if by "metal" you also include salts of...
Thanks for saying this so I didn't have to.
Definitely a cast fake as others have said.
The best thing to do is to brush it lightly with a little mineral oil. "Professional" products are basically that with a little organic solvent...
I would call the obverse Good but the reverse only AG. Have to call it AG.
Fabulous post. I had never before made the etymological connection between the gubernaculum and our government, but I must say that it makes a lot...
Once at a Baltimore show I asked a coin dealer friend what percentage of the dealers on the floor he thought were honest. He looked around for a...
I plan to be there.
I concur with almost everything that GDJMSP writes above. However, it is quite possible that another reason there are so many red rather than RB...
All of which means that there is no benefit to buying or keeping red or red-brown early coppers in slabs. Slabs aren't air-tight, but there are...
Morgan dollar. There, I said it.
No photo, but I have a 1912 quarter eagle that was in my great grandfather's change purse when he died. It went to my mom, and she passed it to me...
Collectors of early US copper coins keep them in soft cotton liners inside 2 x 2 paper envelopes. The more paranoid of us put them in polyethylene...
He is.
This looks like a report for the Annals of Improbable Research or an IgNobel Award.
This stupid line also make it next to impossible for people to get to the Colonial Coin Collectors Club tables and the Early American Coppers...
Scraped and burnished.
Actually, Green still owned them at his death. They all went to Eric Newman, who sold them individually. Eric and his dealer/mentor Burdette...
VF meant something very different in the 1930s. Current grading “standards” are not only too easy but also too flexible.
Weak luster. Decent strike. Nothing special, so a low MS unless the light rim hits bothered them.
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