Given the rate of inflation, the bullion and collector markets might hold up after the pandemic, but that might not be good for the rest of the...
My slab grade would be MS-63. There are marks hidden under the toning, and the tarnish has reached the point where the luster is impacted on the...
GONE! Just like the squirrel running though the front door of Sparky’s house in “National Lampoon’ Christmas Vacation.” I image that this eBay...
Yes the detail on the eagle’s wing is almost always not struck up completely. That makes grading difficult, especially from photos.
[ATTACH] I think that it is genuine. The stuff on the reverse may be from the felt in the jewelry box. Here is another
I have heard of very old English hammered coins falling apart because they contained who knows what in addition to silver. The rare pennies of the...
Heritage charges a 25% buyers' fee on political items. Add to that my local sales tax, and you are up to a little over 133% of the hammer price....
In addition to this nickeling and dimeing you, I've heard a couple dealers say they have left eBay because of the return problems. You ship the...
There are two broad categories of Bryan dollars. The piece you posted, @H8_modern, is called a comparative Bryan dollar. They were made of coin...
This one has been in my collection for a number of years. [ATTACH]
Yes this is my concern. The “brassy” photos make coin look cleaned, and some the quieter photos make it look like it has been rubbed in the...
Here is the example of Confederate note T-39 that is in my collection. I don't have any of the really big rarities. This one was signed by W.T....
That gouge would turn me off right away. My eyes would be drawn to it every time I saw it. Furthermore the gouge makes it an over graded coin in...
I have a list of emperors from Julius Caesar (Caesar's official title was "dictator.") to Severus III who was the last emperor according to some....
I do, but they are British, ancient Roman or political items, including tokens. I have not bought an important U.S. coin in about three years. The...
The saved labels are interesting artifacts, but they don’t prove anything. Once the slab is broken, the certification is null and void. The coins...
Actually it was a dog and a cat.
Collectors have been getting warned about fake gold dollars since I started collecting in the 1960s. There were pictures of genuine and fake gold...
The family did want to liquidate his collection. I was the high bidder on that piece and one other. So they got the cash. BTW, the collection was...
I had an example of the OP token that ended up in a Mint State holder. I sold it to someone who really wanted it for a couple thousand. He didn’t...
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