The reverse line is a deal killer for me. Having been on both sides of the table, marks like that are a prime excuse for dealers to pass on buying...
Since I have opened up my collecting horizons to British coins, I have gotten some new insights into why of the monetary problems existed in...
The Judd numbers are J-67 to 71 with gold piece assigned to 67. The Readers Digest version of the history was that the Secretary of the Treasury...
Yea, that toning would probably be worth a few hundred dollars to somebody, but not to me. The toning may have been put there to hide the cleaning.
I believe that the Walking Liberty Half Dollar was the best designed and most practical coin among the "American Renaissance" pieces that were...
The marks to the right of the eagle's neck are definitely PMD. The raised marks to the left of the shield might be die polishing.
I have one pattern because I like gold dollars and found this one interesting. Restrikes were of made from these dies for many years. Unlike some...
The United States Sanitary Commission was an organization to raise funds to supply soldiers with medical and cleaning supplies. The way diseases...
The "SPOOT" token is supposed to be common, but all but one of the examples I have owned had issues. I sold that one good piece when I was a...
This piece was issued around the time when there was a peace conference held in Washington, DC in February 1861 between representatives of the...
Okay, I’ll bite. There are four original examples of this coin which are now all accounted for. The last one to be verified was owned by...
There are collectors and, probably coin investors, who think that the CAC sticker is an iron clad guarantee that any piece which has it is...
Here is an example of THE OTHER type coin with arrows. [ATTACH]
At best it would be die wear. Die states (arbitrary notations of coin die deterioration while it is in use) can be valuable, but not for Lincoln...
Nice purchase! I am afraid that my bucket list coins have gotten to be too expensive. :sour:
This doesn’t just apply to people who were in the military. When I saw the gravestones of the Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, they had...
The "last or new" coinage, which was introduced in 1816, marked a significant change in British coinage. The weights for the gold and silver...
The quality of hammered coins can be all over the place. It's the same with machine made coins. If the dies are well made, the person doing the...
Yes, the Four Dollar Gold Pieces, also known as "Stellas," are pattern coins that were never made for circulation. I don't think that they are...
Here is a Washington Before Boston medal in copper that was struck from the original dies. Congress voted to award a gold metal to Washington in...
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