You usually don't need any magnification to grade. There are many exceptions like looking for hairlines or grading MS-70's. Sometinmes it's...
All value is belief and nothing else. Even the value of the money in which we measure things is based on nothing but belief. If we come to...
Silver did play a huge part in hoarding the early Kennedys. You're probably right that many of the people putting these away would have done so...
Check the "LIBERTY" on the Denvers for a doubled die and then spend the rest.
Wow! The last I heard there were only less than a dozen of these known. They weren't reported until the '90's so maybe they're starting to...
My understanding is that ALL of the Sacs in the Cheerios packaging is of the pattern type. The value is independent of the packaging. I...
Believe it or not the coins in these sets are not only unc but they are very very choice compared to the bottom half of coins made for...
Congratulation. I know how tough it's getting to crack the top twenty in any of the major sets.
That's cool. Things like this were often used as tags and might have been tied to the shoe or the box.
To me a junk box is what numismatists keep their oddball coins, tkens, and medals in. This is junk that they can't even identify to put it in its...
I don't know why the AVA isn't listed there. Here's their site; http://www.vecturist.com/
There are about 50 of these that are exceedingly common with 50,000 to as many as 1,000,000 in existence. There are a few hundred which are very...
The transportation tokens are common but neither exceedingly so. I don't recognize the uniface token. It appears not to be some sort of...
It don't get no cooler. It has everything.
It's probably nickel plated on one side.
Not only are the gems virtually unknown from rolls from some dates but rolls of some dates are virtually unknown. This last is only a slight...
The first one is a nice gem and in the running. It's hard to tell from the picture if it's a FT or not since it's the ends of the cross bands...
Congratulations!! The '84-P is one of my favoroite dates to hunt since there's such a wide spread in quality and they are so tough in super...
Several possibilities come to mind but they all seem most far fetched. Without more information one has to suspect plating.
The 1970 may be the most heavily picked over of all the mint sets. It's primarily the half dollar but the small dates are getting very tough...
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