I saw the revealed grade after I made my guess. I didn't see the wear and thought it was remarkably clean, hence the grade I gave it. I'm not a...
65
The first iteration of PCI graded very conservatively. I had a few coins graded by PCI that either received the same grade from PCGS, went down a...
I've been a member for nearly 50 years, and I renew every year more out of habit than anything else. I have enjoyed the summer ANA conventions...
Most all the advice I read here sounds good. As has been said many times, be a collector first, collect what you like irrespective of its...
Your 1953 cent reminds me of the BU Lincolns that I dipped. They always came out in some really fake color that looked like your coin. Have yours...
63 in my opinion.
I'm surprised at all the AUs here. I would think it was mint state and a pretty high MS at that, like 65 or 66. Am I way off base?
I love some of the advice you've gotten here. As a wiser man than I said long ago, "Be a collector first." The wiser man was Q. David Bowers, and...
I should have specified that I was talking about the silver ones, not the clad stuff.
If you think Franklins are in the tank, take a look at high-grade Washington 25c. Some of the coins for which I paid $2,000+ for, which was around...
63PL
No insurance. I keep all my coins in lock boxes at a bank in town that's right across the street from a fire station. I had a coin burglary many...
Pictures? Hard to tell anything about them without pictures.
A colleague and I bought quite a few GSA dollars in the second sale, I think. Anyway, we got all common dates except for an 1881-CC that NGC later...
63
AU50, XF40
I've been fooling with coins in one way or another for something like 60 years so I have a lot of regrets about purchases I missed. Of course,...
You can use the monthly "Coin Market" in Numismatic News for retail prices, but you really should try to convey to friends what they could...
I considered getting an insurance policy for my coins in the lock boxes. My fear was that the bank might burn down and all that would be left of...
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