Your money will go a lot further, and your collection will grow faster. :)
Best place to get them graded is at your house. Get some generic shells, put the coins in them along with a label showing what you think they grade.
Metallic hydrogen? Wow guy must have a STRONG grip.
They are die cracks. Cracks from the corners of the memorial are very common because the deep impression and sharp corners cause a lot of stress...
Machine doubling, die crack on rev, die chip in field below motto.
PIDT Progressive Indirect Design Transfer, also known as "Ghosting". Nice example by the way.
Who knows what they might call it. They might just call it a broadstrike (technically it is but that's not a full description.) They might call...
The reason the dimes on quarter stock are scarcer is because their additional thickness tends to make them jam counting machines. Machine is set...
Similar problem to what they had back in the days before they did Details grading. People would post bodybaged circulated coins on ebay claiming...
Marshall beat me to it. Not a S-180, S-161 an R-1 coin. That rev cud trips up a lot of people into thinking they have a 180 rev of 161 [IMG] op...
This was the main reason for the desire to change the cent. The way the Mint was set up the public could bring their gold or silver to the Mint...
It definitly looks like a flip over double strike to me.
That has been the one thing about SEGS ever since they opened. They have always been the top TPG for variety attribution, they do more varieties...
The law says the bonds have to be posted before they could handle precious metal, there is nothing in the law that says unless there is a cabinet...
If you do want to have a TPG slab it (and not self slab) and it is just for sentimental value your best deal would probably be ANACS, ICG of if...
Not today, will pick up an Unc dollar on the secondary market at some point in the future.
Fred got to it before I did. There were a lot of these seen back in 2007. The edge lettering on the coin is incuse so the letters are raised on...
This is true, but the problem is that at the time the 1792 half disme were strucj the key personnel had NOT posted their bonds yet so production...
It's an NCLT, which to me makes it a pseudo-coin, neither a coin or a token.
PCGS has had that capability since 1991, but they didn't use it. They reintroduced it when they started the Secure Shield. So in theory they...
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