I would depend more upon your own grading skills and your tastes as to what is an attractive coin than becoming a slave to CAC. CAC is mostly for...
I have only one slab with a gold foil label so I have not experienced this. How does the label get damaged in a sealed compartment?
The way things have worked in the past, the rules will change if you are into this for a few years.
Yes, “war zone” holders are the product of a few auction appearances. You can often polish them with auto headlight wax.
Type I, an 1857-S recovered from the SS Central America." The split of the SS Central America recovery went something like 92% to guys who put the...
Yes, the only 1878 reverse of ‘79 dollars were issued from the Philadelphia Mint. [ATTACH]
If you really look at them, there are some good designs among the modern commemorative gold coins. The trouble is the only way they have made...
Thickness was the whole idea. When you decrease the diameter, it takes less pressure to strike the coin.
Yes, I posted there, but I thought that 2009 piece deserves its own thread.
Here is the 2009 "Ultra High Relief" $20 gold coin. When I heard about this piece, I thought thought that it would be a reproduction of the...
The High Relief [ATTACH] The "low relief" [ATTACH] A 1908 No Motto. This was my first $20 gold piece, bought in 1965. Today it is in an NGC...
Please note that @Idhair wrote Early Green Label PCI Holders. The company went through a number of ownership changes, and some of the subsequent...
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Right. The original containers for Morgan Dollars were bags of 1,000 pieces. Anything else would be bank rapped. With all of the counterfeits...
Paying that kind of money for Lincoln Memorial Cents makes not sense to me. Even the picture in the ad shows coins with green corrosion on them....
I have always like the 1896 silver dollar because of its connection to the 1896 presidential election. [ATTACH] I bought this one at the...
Back when NGC and PCGS first started grading nice AU-58s as MS-62, there was a reason for doing that, according to the market. There are some of...
I believe another person recording the seminars now. FUN shows past years’ seminars on their sites. They will probably do that again.
Yes, it is an official seminar. It will be on Thursday at 11:45. I don't have the room number.
I am scheduled to give a counterfeit detection seminar at the 2024 FUN show. It will be at 11:45 AM on Thursday, January 4.The emphasis will be on...
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