Illustrates the dangers of judging a coins color/appearance from images on the computer. What you see on the screen may not look anything like...
Worst comes to worst you could try calling them. Their phone number is posted.
Bronze wasn't introduced into the coinage until 1864 and there is documentation in the archives from the early 1860's discussing the possibility...
They can refuse the coins, but if they do they can't apply a late fee. They could be challenged on that part.
Don't hold your breath. So far at least three bills authorizing them have been introduced in the past year and a half. None of them have ever...
No the eagle on the Great Seal has ALWAYS looked to its right, where the olive branch has been griped in it right talon. (viewers left). It has...
Looks like a dime that was exposed to high heat causing bubbles to develop, then abrasively cleaned grinding down the surfaces some while removed...
Looks to me like the light scrape marks caused by the edge of another coin lightly sliding across the field. Doesn't look like deliberate graffiti.
I'll cast my vote in the genuine camp as well.
What in that ad implies to you that there is a mint on the moon?
So you'll cross it into a PCGS holder with translucent prongs that cover even more of the rim of the coin.
It's not GOING for $240,000, he's ASKING $240,000. It isn't going for that amount until someone actually bids on it, or in this case agrees to...
NGC has always used slabs. they only time you might see something with NGC and not a slab would be a bodybaged coin.
Since he is a Morgan dealer there is another advantage for him, ANACS is pretty much top of the line for VAM attributions, more reliable than PCGS...
One of the members here, Jack Young, has a series of articles on Coin Week that shows many of these counterfeits, and they have ALL gotten into...
That is correct...and tens if not hundreds of thousands of silver plated ones came from the TV coin sales hucksters.
Whatever it brings. There probably aren't enough verifiable sales to create a firm estimate.
I think the only confusing thing that most sellers would say is "How does he get these bidiots to buy his coins when I can't sell better pieces at...
Overall, yes the restrike is much rarer, BUT the 1823 business strikes are rare in VF and above. It is fairly easy to find in VG or lower, tough...
The three marks to the right of the L are contact marks from the edge of another coin.
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