Correct No, you have to pay for grading and verification. And don't forget about the expense of shipping and insurance both ways plus their fee...
If you like "everything" then maybe for right now you should concentrate on collecting by type. That allows you to collect "everything". You can...
There is nothing special about the Cheerios cent. In the original package they bring a few dollars on ebay. The $100 plus pieces listed are for...
I think at best you would get MS-64 for those cents. Cost to have them slabbed would be around $18 apiece plus shipping and insurance each way...
How would melting down a couple hundred million silver dollars that had for the most part NEVER been in circulation cleanse the circulating...
In 1918 Britain needed silver for the purchase of needed war supplies (sellers didn't want paper money from a country that was on shaky ground),...
Rev is that of S-234, 235, and 236. Wave of hair below the center of the E in LIBERTY nails it as S-236. On 234 that wave is between the B & E,...
It looks interesting. Might be a DDO, might be Die Deterioration Damage, can't really tell. A DDO this strong is very unlikely since the...
It is a close AM, but the reverse die has been extensively polished increasing the distance between the A and M. Also looks like there is some...
One of my favorite issues in the early commems for the scandals that surrounded it.
The requirements do change from time to time. Those aren't the same requirements I had, nor are they the same ones that were in place when I was...
Yes, in theory the dies should be set so that at full travel the dies should NOT come into contact with each other. If the dies ARE able to clash...
Photos are not good enough to tell if the edge has been altered.
10 isn't rare?
If you keep an eye out token dies show up from time to time and they are MUCH cheaper, and they usually have the entire design on them. You might...
I see a few things that might be polishing lines, I also see things that might be flowlines.
They are both the result of the same thing, a previously struck coin being between the planchet and the die. In the case of a brockage the...
That's only four years, we sometimes get necro-threads from over 10 years earlier.
In some cases military service members over seas were directed to collect the spent shell cases. This should not have occurred and the shell...
yes it has a lot of cleaning lines, but that is not what he is talking about. He points out a SINGLE heavy line bisecting the coin. It can be...
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