Peace dollar: scratches. Looks like it was in a holder (or on a surface) and was scraped across something. The lines are on the high points, in...
Yeah, he's my hero as well. He joined towards the end of the war (and might have lied about his age to join). He initially was trained as a...
Man, I wish the dog was my problem! That's an easy fix - get rid of the roommate! (it's her dog, and they are both sweethearts that have helped so...
I feel so bad that I haven't been able to wrap this contest up.... Shortly after I started it, my car broke down. Then the AC in my attic broke...
Oh, I'm so sorry y'all. I completely forgot about this - had a whole bunch of life issues come up and I haven't really posted here in a few weeks....
This is known as "Longacre Doubling." It isn't really doubling - it happens when the mint worker making the die punches the letter too deep, and...
For those of you who do not use Ebay - what do you use instead? I'm interested in both selling and buying. I like the auction option of Ebay,...
I too use fairly old versions of the PDFs. So much more convenient than the paper copies.
The company that owned Krause was split up and assets were sold at bankruptcy auction. Numismatic News and a few of the magazines went one place,...
How do you know its Roman? (not being smart here - I don't know what identifies it as Roman as opposed to something else, or something modern...
I do my research and only buy certified coins which I am reasonably assured of their authenticity (checking for fake slabs, too, of course.) And,...
Some good advice here already! I'll leave it open until this weekend, and I will choose the first winners. Keep it coming!
As much as I usually prefer NGC, their world coin value search is one of the jankiest api's on the web. When it's "working" it barely works, and...
You bump a 12 year old thread to trash on Excel? Oh, corporal, you are tiresome sometimes.
As usual, I was a point low compared to the TPGs. Or, the TPG was a point high compared to me ;) It probably didn't get the star because the...
Yes. There were only 4 obverse dies used for the 09-S VDB. The mintmark location varies very slightly between each of the 4, and they are well...
Get that to NGC right away! If its genuine, that's a $1000 coin.
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Could you elaborate a bit on the "like these" part? From this emperor? From this mint? From this time period? Or, are you saying that almost all...
I have many, many coins that make me happy. I have coins that are incredibly rare, incredibly beautiful, incredibly expensive, or have a great...
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