Received an order back from PCGS in almost record time for a regular submission. It was a successful world crossover. However, the PCGS website...
This is a common Heritage activity. You should be able to verify it by going to Heritage's website (coins.ha.com) and sign-in. Cal
I’ll be there. If anyone would like to meet, please PM me. Cal
Yeah, regular service can be fast, but not usually that fast. Economy is a different story. Cal
That's great. US or World and what tier? Cal
It’s a good book and Mike Harlan did his research well. It covers 30 specific moneyers 63-49 BC. Not sure if that was all of them in that time...
Green crusty stuff is probably copper salts with the copper coming from impurities in the silver. There are chemicals that could remove it, but...
OK. There are still two unanswered questions. 2-3. What U.S. sculptor, who was never a mint employee, designed a sitting liberty U.S. coin?...
I’ve done scores of submissions to PCGS over the years. I’ve never had an economy submission (U.S. or world) come back in the estimated time....
In the last half of the 1800’s, a lot of patterns were sold “out the backdoor” of the mint or went into collections of mint officials. So, as...
Yep, you're right!
Yep, you're right! Whoops. You got double credit.
2-1 and 2-2 are correct! 2-3: Good guess but Sully was not a sculptor. 2-4 and 2-5: Not right, but Pan-Pac $50s were the second largest.
Coin below is part of the city views commemorative series by the Royal Mint in UK. It's 5 oz silver and 65 mm in diameter. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Close but there were greater diameter coins. Cal
You're right on 2-1. In fact there were a lot patterns meeting this criterion. Some quarter, half and one dollar pattern coins in the “standard”...
Cal’s Coin Trivia Quiz #2. Try to answer from your mind or paper sources first before asking Prof. Google. And please, only one answer per...
Really nice collection and well documented. With ancients especially, documenting the coins and learning about what they depict is a big part of...
The article in the link below was posted as an ad on the MSN news website. Unfortunately, some folks will believe that what they posted applies...
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