Good thought! That had not occurred to me.
Yes, this the hardest and most expensive date. The other one is the 1804. I had the 1793s from my type set.
I have been gradually forming a year set of cents from 1793 to date. The "biggest bear of all" is the 1799 cent. This coin started to become...
Yes, large numbers of Seated Dollars have been cleaned, and this one is no exception. I had one with decent eye appeal, with AU sharpness, that...
The close-up the pictures have me grading it AG-3 sharpness, but a "sharpness grade" because of cleaning.
[ATTACH] Here is a mint medal from 1861. Of course, like almost all medals, the mint continued to issue them for years after the initial date....
I would say Fair-02. The date is strong, but everything else is really weak. Believe it or not, if the coin gets a straight grade, the lower the...
I think that Lincoln has an erie look in his eyes on this piece. It reminds me of a science fictor book I read many years ago. There was some sort...
My Proof Trade Dollar. [ATTACH] Mint State Trade Dollar [ATTACH] Chop Marked Trade Dollar [ATTACH] "Box" Trade Dollar [ATTACH]
Happy Halloween! This display is on my fireplace ledge. We got cheated out of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal because the first hurricane....
It’s worth more in the GPS holder. The coin would grade MS-62 at the best, probably MS-61.
The Silver Three Cent Pieces are a lot more expensive, even in low grade. When I was a dealer I had 7 of them in a junk box that had not dates....
This one is in an NGC MS-66 holder. Yours might be better. I didn't pay MS-66 money for it. [ATTACH]
The first one, the 1847 half dime looks odd to me. It's got wear on the high points and yet it has odd luster. The surfaces under the luster look...
[ATTACH] I way over paid for this one. It's a great coin, but I got carried away at an auction. Recent sales indicate that the market is catching...
The Spiked Chin 1804 half cent is known with four different reverses. The die is known with two reverses before it was damaged, which created the...
They are the ugliest until you start collecting medieval British coins. That's British King William II, also known as "Rufus." He looks like a...
I bought this one for the type about 20 years ago. These coins were very well made. They were the best of the colonial issues. The trouble it cost...
The die variety is 1804 Cohen 13. It is probably the most common half cent variety. The reverse die, without the stems, survived to make the most...
I bought this one about 40 years ago. [ATTACH] Here is an example of the farthing. This one was lightly cleaned on the reverse so it might not...
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