I haven't seen a PF-5 Morgan, but I have seen a PF-5 1836 Gobrecht dollar.
It probably removed the PVC residue long ago, you're now hoping it will remove PVC damage, and it won't do that.
There is some interest from the sample slab collecting community but value tends to be on the low side. Slabs that actually say SAMPLE tend to be...
I have not seen one of PCGS's 1.0 with a serial number over 1080900. I have seen PCGS's 1.1's with numbers under 1081000. As far as I know all...
Can't tell from the images exactly what it is.
I think pedigrees are important, but names on a slab are not necessarily. I have coins that can be traced back through collections, major and...
I don't have my copy of Wright available here but my copy of Noyes shows the obv of 28 N-12 was used for 2,3,4,5, and 12 and he doesn't show or...
And they were still overpriced.
I don't know about graded, but it will have to be authenticated. It might be a fake booklet and that slab doesn't deserve those stickers!
This was the 1804, it appears to be altered from an 1803 S-260...
There are a few dies that have a crack from the date through stars 13, and 12 but that crack doesn't go to the bottom of the date. All of the...
I don't have a cross reference for the Sheldon and Breen die names but it looks to me like a perfect dies S-256.
The top TPG's do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business each year. They wouldn't risk that income flow to steal a coin most likely...
Looks like vandalism. Oddly the crack across star 7 does look real but I don't know of an 1828 with a crack in that location. Can you post an...
I have all the books as well, and don't collect any of them. I have lots of books on series that I don't collect.
I'm not sure where the Nova Constellatio coins were made. The patterns were made in England but the circulating coppers may have been made here....
On the closeups of the reverse, just above the U you can see the tips of the denticals. In the beveled area above the UN I see what look like...
Maybe it was faked in another country, one whose exchange rate made it worthwhile. In Zimbabwe when the US dollar was worth hundreds of millions...
I'm currently at the ISNA show.
One, nickels do not have clad layers so it can't be missing one. Two, Yes an acid soak would compromise the luster, so it probably isn't acid...
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