But the coins shown and linked are not hobo nickels, they are modern engraved art. They are Art and people will pay for Art that moves them....
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Nice coin, not a proof.
I like the 1857 as well, nice color, not messed with borderline F-12.
Yeah, first get a copy of the third edition of Grellman's - Attribution Guide for United States Large Cents 1840 - 1857 (My second edition stops...
If it stays up long term. Frequently they will go up, and sometimes even stay up for awhile after they are issued, but long term most of them are...
Probably genuine but mashed.
Yes there is quite a lot to the story. One of the reasons they couldn't make the number they had promised was because they embezzled the...
That is an interesting slab, it's not in the book. Very similar to ACG 7 but the font is different on both front and back labels. Mind if I...
Two mint employees were put on trial for smuggling out and selling errors several years ago. At that time it was decided that something like 13...
Try here http://www.pcgs.com/News/1909-Matte-Proof-New-Coin-Die-Discovered Unfortunately the photos that Charmy posted of the diagnostics I...
Two words Fugio Cent
Seems to me that works FOR the actual collectors, if they have patience. Just wait a little bit and you buy them below issue price. Sounds like...
No, it has frequntly been said that it look like Liberty was in a fright, or she had the "Heebie-Jeebies".
I think it's a large date.
Not much to work with and no picture of the reverse, first approximation I coin up with after a quick flip through the book is 127
The doubling on the letters tends to look like movement of the die between strikes, it doesn't look like a doubled die, the doubling on the spikes...
I think it is fairly well established that Franklin came up with the design that was used on the Continental dollar and later the Fugio (there are...
PCI began with the Photoslabs (licenced from Accugrade) in 1986, the Hallmark style slabs didn't begin until late 1991. The ANACS certificate...
The Libertas Americana medal was probably more the inspiration for the 1793 Liberty cap design on the half cent and cent than the chain cent....
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