The designs are a poor copy of the real thing. The general "look" is that of the St. Gaudens design, but the details are all off. This is only a...
It probably does not have enough contrast between the devices and the fields. I have very little with business strike PL coin. I have far more...
Do you mean "bargain American Silver Eagles" like this one? Someone went back to 1906 in their time machine, told the mint that ASEs would be...
Here is genuine example, which is PCGS graded MS-66. [ATTACH] I don't care for the piece you posted because it appears to lumps of metal in...
Bad pictures from guys who are "selling their grandpa's coins" is often a bad sign. I don't like the luster on that piece at all. It's between...
Clash marks are not unusual on Type II gold dollars, the 1854 and 1855 coins. The trouble is the coins have other problems. Here are some...
I had a SEGS graded Mint State 1848-C quarter eagle when I was a dealer in the late 1990s. I had it on consignment. It was over 25 years ago so I...
They are not real coins. They are a coin like representation of Felix Schlag’s original winning design which never reached even the pattern coin...
I refuse to deal with eBay auctions because of their snipping policy. Twice I have finished first in an auction only to have snipper take it away...
The main “kid coins” I left are gold. I formed an eight piece gold type set when I was in high school. I still have four of those coins. The best...
Yes, Caesar portrait coins are expensive. I bid $11,000 for a decent one, which would have cost me $13,200 with the buyers’ fee, and I still...
There were many counterfeit British half pennies in circulation in American and in England. The government simply did not issue enough pieces to...
These pieces used to be fairly cheap many years ago. I bought this one for less than $50. This was also done with 1892 and '93 Columbian half...
This 1860-O half dollar is graded MS-64, CAC [ATTACH]
I’m too old to chase them. They would only want me for my money.
It’s a piece of “flypaper” that was made to get your money. It’s no different from the “1929 $5 layered in 100% gold,” worth about 14 cents, that...
All of us have had periods when we got away from collecting. My period was in the late 1970s when I went back to grad school for an MBA. Money was...
To follow up, the 1885-CC is quite scarce in any grade below Mint State. It seems that most of the survivors never made it to circulation and...
My grade would be VF-20. It has quite a bit of wear. The Grey Sheet price is $120.
MS-63. Today coins like that might end up in MS-64 holders.
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