Picked this one up at the Long Beach show last week. 1906 Congo Free State 20 Centimes (PCGS MS66). Not a common coin to begin with, only 100,000...
From tonight's Heritage Auction: [ATTACH] 1925 Fort Vancouver in PCGS MS67. Bought it for the color.
First off, you're vastly over-estimating the rarity of this coin. What you have is a cleaned coin that had started to retone. Looks like there...
From the latest Heritage auction. It's been a few years since I purchased a US coin for my collection and the color just caught my eye. [ATTACH]
Around $200. It was a proof Indian 1c in a PCGS slab with a green sticker. It had a nice carbon spot scraped off. I was told PCGS bought the coin...
The biggest problem with buying SEGS coins is that depending on when the coin was graded, it could be undergraded or vastly overgraded. They were...
1932/VS1989.
Minted in Bungtown (Barneysville), Rehoboth, Massachusetts around the late 18th / early 19th century. Apparently there was a copper coin shortage,...
It's a Bungtown imitation Halfpenny featuring George II. Obverse says "George Ruled" and reverse says "Britain's Isles". It's listed in Atkins 150.
One has a potentially life altering outcome. The other is an ASE.
I'm embarrassed that this is associated with coin collecting. The Hobby of Kings reduced to suckering people into buying generic bullion graded...
Sceats are usually two-sided and with the animal a little more robust. Reminds me more of circa late 14th/early 15th century eastern Europe. But...
You can send it back to NGC and they will do a detailed analysis of the metal composition and list the breakdown on the insert. Last time I looked...
You're all nuts. The coin has some light oxidation over pristine surfaces.
I'm not going to debate you on cause, but perhaps you could enlighten us on your answer of "putty". What mastermind would putty between the...
Holder, like a flip. Not a slab.
Most likely residue from a degraded holder. I've seen this on a lot of coins. It's kind of waxy and comes off with a toothpick.
The problem is the retoning after the cleaning looks unnatural. So PCGS can call it AT or cleaned. Since it wasn't technically artificially toned,...
From the just completed Heritage auction. Don't have it in hand yet, but appears really nice from the pics. It's a 1917 (AH1335) Heaton Mint...
Personal collection that I still own, 400-500. For resale, probably 50,000-60,000.
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