Sounds like you need to get drunk again and dig them out.
I couldn't save Lincoln either!
So for the coin in question, since the fakes appeared a couple years after the genuine example was sold at a Goldberg auction in 2013, one wonders...
I almost went with MS67 but thought there were too many marks on the neck. I don't think it would get the PL designation.
I still have one on my bucket list.
A question we should all ask is how many 100+ year old copper coins, especially red and red-brown, that have been straight graded have been dipped...
That's actually a coin I bid on and lost. I have bought a number of IHC at his auctions and have no issues with them. My biggest issue with his...
I just read the link and thanks. Do the counterfeiters only need high resolution photos to make a counterfeit die or do they need an original coin?
I agree with the others. Her feeling good about buying these for you is more important.
I'll begin to worry when Amazon buys one of them; with a Prime membership you get free shipping.
Hopefully there wasn't an 1877 or 1909-S.
Just the 1916-D!
I just wanted to add that in 1970, 71 or 72, my brother worked after school at a dry cleaners my dad also worked at. He used to go through the...
I would but I worry that my older brother is a CT member and he'd find out that his missing Mercury dime ended up on a train track rail.
How did you scratch it?
Now that made my day!
Another dumb thin I did was show my coins to one of my cousins. Back in the early 70's I would by a couple Canadian proof sets and proof dollars....
Since I feel stupid this morning I may as well mention one of the dumbest things I ever did to a coin(s). My interest in coins began in the mid...
If I recall correctly, the seller blocked me from bidding on any of their coins. That was many years ago after I was dumb enough to fall for the...
I only do auctions on Ebay. The buy now prices seem to be unreasonably high to me. Even the starting bids for some auction items are...
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