That may not be too bad, remember the ceiling gets low on both sides of the curve. Keep right.
Yes please, post a picture of it if you can. Most people have never seen a green Redfield or green Paramount holder. I had images of both of them...
It may take longer than you think. I knew people trying to collect worst known pieces years before the third-party grading services existed. Today...
Mariaaggie, coins that you still have certificates of do the numbers on your certificates appear anywhere on any of the other paperwork you have....
1858 was the first year that the mint sold proof coins directly to collectors. Before that you had to know somebody to get one.
One problem with the 1994 1997 Nichols is at the third-party grading services have been inconsistent with what they call them. At different times...
Are you talking about U. S. coins are Canadian coins? I've never been able to tell the Canadian specimen coins from the Canadian proof coins either.
It probably had luster when it was slabbed, and over time the zinc has oxidized destroying the luster, even in the slab. It's been in that slab...
They might do a Rockwell hardness test on a die, but I can't see them doing it on the face of the die. They' d do it on the side of the body....
Error in my previous post the Bicentennial 40% silver's are type I not type II. Still should not have two different types on one coin. If you...
I've already pointed out why the 1796 is a fake. On the second auction that Jack Young points out the half cent has an obverse head style of a...
Apologies for the double posting, I'm having problems with my keyboard.
I can, and it is a fake. For one thing, no 1796 draped bust cent has the date positioned that far right. For another although it's difficult to...
I think what he's looking for is the third-party grading population report just for coins in slabs labeled GSA or in graded GSA slabs. I don't...
Are you sure that's the obverse of the same dollar? The reason I ask is that is the obverse of a type II, and the reverse is type I. All of the...
They don't. It is a trick your eyes are playing on you. Since the shield areas are surrounded by lighter devices the fields in the shields LOOK...
I go to the linked NGC certification page and the grade is there and says MS66. Mist have fixed it in a hurry.
And crop the image to just the coin, and use full size images and not thumbnails when posting them.
All 1982 proofs are 3.1 gram copper, and they should all be large dates since production started early in the year before the small dates came out.
A Morgan dollar "Expert"? Hardly, just scratches the surface. But as a brief (very brief) introduction it does well enough. But everything you...
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