Many of these medals have a holing point struck on the coin where the punch is supposed to go - examples without the hole in those cases are...
Some new acquisitions of note: Austria/Hungary/Transylvania 1854E AU Ducat KM-2263 (1852-1859) NGC MS61 This is an Austrian type, struck in...
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If you have a coin that is a variety you can send it in for a variety label for $15 and they reholder it for free. $5 more but you get the variety...
This is a great point. I've met many dealers through eBay who I trust buying raw from. Buy one coin first or maybe a few cheaper coins and see if...
Reholder service $10.
Many of my very best purchases have been raw coins on eBay, including gold, patterns, and raw classic silver that graded up to MS66. You have to...
Sellers are lying Sellers don't know any better Seller might be right and the photo may be making the coin look worse than it is eBay is...
Sorting by date is a good start, but just pull out key/semi-key dates and major varieties (ones recognized enough to be in the Red Book) and...
That doesn't make sense. Level of wear looks VF25/30, even if they net graded a coin for something there's no way they would go down that many...
Don't make it too easy for them. Squirrel coins away in different places and write cryptic notes on the flips and rolls that will keep them guessing.
Could be any coin in that slot. Whenever I look through albums like these at estate sales, pawn shops, etc. I see the same thing. The key dates...
That's a Namco arcade token. They were made for a few years in the early 90s and there are a few different types. My other hobby is arcade...
The last coins I got were in a 2x2 inside a cardboard mailer inside a padded PCGS hard case, inside a padded mailing box, and guess what? They...
I didn't say that you did. I agree with you. But my point is that scarce doesn't have to have an alternate numismatic meaning for it to be used...
Think of it as an exception. They need a term to describe the coin. They can't just put "cool coin, bro" on the label. What would you have them...
Agreed. Those are clearly not specimens. Like you said; a marketing gimmick. However, you lose me at the Morgan. It seems perfectly reasonable to...
Well, "to me" in that I primarily deal in Austro-Hungarian material and as that is how the term is used numismatically to describe those coins, it...
Scarce is not a vague term at all. These words are not interchangeable. They have very real definitions. Rarity describes the quantity extant....
Nice find.
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