PCGS Coin Facts says the retail value of the 1855 $10 gold in EF-40 is $1,600. You did okay because today’s PCGS EF-40 might not be as good. I...
I have a PCGS MS-63 for a type coin. I would love to get a Proof, but the prices have been too high. I sold a really nice Proof when I was a...
Copper is the most reactive of the three classic coinage metals. It can take on many shades. The early large cent expert, Dr. William Sheldon,...
It depends upon how you want to define low mintage. Is it the lowest mintage for a date and mint combination in The Red Book, or the estimated...
You can start with a box of twenty, but as a 70+ year old collector who has been at it since the 1960s, the number of boxes gets much bigger. I...
Yes, having been dumb enough to get caught up in those, I know what you mean. Thank goodness the dumb one I was involved in was a very scarce coin...
Sorry, not even close. Here is the one in my type set. It's graded MS-66. It would not be worth grading today. I paid $25 for it, to fill the...
I think that the color will hold it back. In the old days, it would have been a VF-35 or so. If the color were even, it would be at least EF-45,...
Here are some of the Prohibition buttons that I have. I don't have a "devil" example. This was a major argument for Prohibition in the 'teens....
I checked into what dealer Jeff Garrett had to say in his U.S. gold coin encyclopedia. For the 1892-O $10 gold, he says that it is easily obtained...
Many years ago, I went to one of those shopping mall coin shows. A guy had an 1877 Indian he had found with a metal detector. There was no...
The 1877 Indian Cent was my dream coin in high school. I finally got one. It had Fine sharpness for the time, but there was a very small green...
Oddly enough I have never collected temperance tokens, mainly because they are not listed with the presidential tokens listed in DeWitt /...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here is one that is in an MS-64 holder.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] How about one dated 1906?
It's a counterfeit that has been made into an non-existent date and mint combination. The Chinese have done this numerous times. They have dies...
It has a sharp date, and for that reason, it grades at least Fair-2. The reverse is an AG-3.
The sharpness grade is VF - 30. The grading on the Seated Dollars is a bit different from the other denominations of this type because the...
The photos are not sharp enough to tell for sure, but my first impression is that the piece is a counterfeit. More than a decade ago, the Chinese...
You have the Type II Bicentennial dollars. I can tell by the thickness of the letters in “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” The Type I letters are thick,...
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