With all of the fakes out there from China and other places, I don't envy these guys jobs at all. I consider my ability to spot fakes to the...
When you read the American history, it would lead you to think that the British kings refused to provide coins to the American colonies to keep...
So I take, @Chris B, that there are hundreds of varieties of these tokens, both in silver and copper? What denominations were they? I am not...
Sometimes I think that "Some pigs are more equal than other pigs."
In U.S. coins, edge filing is often done to remove edge bumps or damage that would make the coin less valuable. It's huge defect because it was...
I will have to get a tube of green toothpaste to learn about what is dangerous. :woot:
There was a time, during the Napoleonic Wars, when the British Government could not supply enough coins to its domestic economy. In their place,...
Here is one of the few coins I kept from my half cent die variety collection that I sold many years ago. This is also a Spiked Chin, but it's the...
I have doubts about both of the $3 gold pieces. The relief does not look right on the 1854. It looks too shallow, and I don't like the wire rim or...
I noticed that four people have voted "Apple / Vivid Green." I thought that color was an indication of big trouble. The corrosion was still active...
@Marsden - That AT Morgan dollar makes me want to puke. :vomit: The OP coin is passible, but I since I don't understand the toner market, I'd be...
I would go VF-30. The details are a little sharper, but the color is on the dark side. It is most common of the four Spiked Chin varieties with a...
I am going by the grades on the holders, not what I might grade them. Unfortunately the Covid epidemic left me depending on photos more than I...
I voted "brown," but I know that shows my ignorance, and it's the main reason why I seldom buy Roman coins in copper. Here's my best looking one....
That is a really poor fake. Here's real one that was struck off-center. [ATTACH]
I believe that the 5 pound piece in the ANACS holder that was shown in the opening post as been wiped. I see some hairlines on the reverse in the...
Calling that a "VG" is an example of "grade-flation." They do it mostly on 1908-S and 1909-S Indian Cents, and that's a shame.
I have the four 1902 gold pieces in Matte Proof. The half sovereign and sovereign are raw and part of an 11 piece set. The two and five pound...
It's either a cast counterfeit, and a bad one, or it's been pickled in acid. Either way, it's not worth very much.
When I was a dealer, the buy price was around 50 cents. The trouble is the cost of handling it exceeds the mark-up, so the buy prices are low.
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