Bank tellers. They sell coins right at face value.
And common date ASE's with handling damage sell at pawn shops for $30. That doesn't mean that they're *worth* that price.
The original funerary tokens may be valuable. An interesting side note from reading about early numismatics in the US - George Washington...
I'd place it between F & VF based on what I can see.
Any thoughts on the grade?
I'm not sure how to grade these Indian Head gold pieces, and while adding this to my spreadsheet, I found that the highest grade ones are worth...
I've got an extensive US collection, including many modern commemoratives. I've bought exactly none of them directly from the mint.
I'm not sure what this is. It appears to be a French token that was holed for use as a charm. Any information or value estimate would be...
Out of curiosity, what did you end up getting?
I'm a bit confused here. Was this a fake that fooled NGC?
Heck, I might be being a lot harsher on this than I realized. A quick scan search on closed HA auctions pulled up *this* one graded MS62 BN:
I'd like to confirm my estimated grade. Despite the one side having a minor rim ding and slight porosity throughout, do you think this would...
Dangit. It *was* lint. Buy 3 die cracked coins in a short period and you start seeing die cracks everywhere. Took a serious Big Bad Wolfing to...
The stickers do add a small premium, but I'd only keep them if you eliminated the possibility of a valuable mint mark hiding under them....
I picked up a few neat things. Mostly common dates in the high AU to low MS range:[ATTACH]
Considering their scarcity, it's quite reasonable that they're often overlooked.
It's definitely not a hair, but a "whisker" of metal.
I wish I found a project like this. Those are a fascinating set of coins and ones that we come across very rarely in Texas. I have only a few of...
I wonder if the scrapped coin was kept? Also, I'll add that this was the 2nd US Commemorative. The 1848 "CAL" gold pieces often get overlooked:...
I'd go ms61 to 62. Nice coin, especially considering it's right at the start of the series and has a few decades on younger examples.
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