Yes, they are chasing after coins. Dentists and jewelers were allowed to get gold from the government and practice their craft.
You were also allowed to keep $100 face value if you chose. Most people didn't realize it or turned their gold in any way.
Actually the government took it to the $35 price artificially. It was a way to devalue the dollar for foreign trade, which made U.S. goods a more...
I have owned a couple of them. The first one was certified. [ATTACH] Then I upgraded this one. [ATTACH] Maximinus was obviously a huge,...
Yes, they are not easy to find. One of the on-line London dealers had a couple of them, which are not as nice is this one. They wanted 4,700...
Yes, I read that they stripped him naked before they threw his body over the horse just add something to their contempt for him. He did not...
As I get closer to acquiring a coin from each of the British kings on my list, I have gone back and upgraded a few pieces. Richard III ruled for...
If you can really cherrypick from it, it's worth more than its weight in gold.
My two type coins. The 1866 with rays. This one is now in an NGC MS-64 holder. [ATTACH] The type without rays. This one is graded PR-66+...
This is not a "lucky tillicum" piece, but it's from the same election campaign. The piece piece is concave / convex with the depression side "in...
Here is a genuine 1872-S half dollar. I down loaded this from the PCGS Coin Facts site. [ATTACH] Here is the bad one. This one is really...
“Feeding the beast” is actively collecting these thing in quantity because you like them, not for educational purposes. It also involves actively...
Yes, that counterfeit of the certified 1872-S half dollar is dangerous as hell. You would have to be very familiar with the real thing to spot it....
I am sure that many of the CWT rarity ratings need to be revised, usually downward. As for the replacement of the worn out die with a “like die”...
The variety in the OP is rated as a R-9 which means there are less than ten known. There is not much chance that this piece was issued as an...
To me a "contemporary counterfeit" is a Mahin's Mills piece that was made in the 1780s during the same time period that the genuine coins were...
For those who don't know about the "shattered Indian" variety, here it is. This piece is not at all scarce. How did it last for that long? Not...
Some contemporary counterfeits have value as a piece of history from centuries ago. The Omaga counterfeits were made to rip off collectors off...
It's a quarter dollar, not a half dollar, but it's still interesting.
Not as much fun as the previous postings, but this is a classic Massachusetts CWT that comes in the 5, 10, 25 and 50 cent denominations. [ATTACH]
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