I recently purchased an 1804 large cent and am still learning about them. The die state you referenced; does that refer to the die crack (?)...
Agreed - you did well. Those 40% JFK's have a known quantity of silver in them, so there's never any real reason to melt them down. But, if you...
Beautiful! Hopefully you've got a holder or a flip to keep it in... a coin with that much eye appeal deserves some protection.
If they're fakes, they at least look like decent ones. Sadly, there are a lot of decent fakes starting to pop up.
I'm a SCD collector - do you have a link to the auction with the fake SCD? Generally, these are fringe enough that there aren't a lot of fakes...
I recently got an 1837 capped bust half dime. It's a filler grade piece for my type set, and this is a single year type - the last year the Bust...
That's one heck of a nice junk find! I wish I could be so lucky...
I would recommend putting the coins on a scanner and posting pictures here. Coin prices vary greatly based on 3 things: the date of the coin,...
It might have been prepared for use as a love token (that was common from the 1850's until the 1910's). I agree that it's German and looks like a...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] I doubt this resolution is high enough to ID the dies, but it's what I've got to work with. Which reference book would you...
I recently won a 1886-P Morgan at the Dallas Coin Club raffle (slabbed MS63 by PCGS... not bad for a $20 raffle buy-in). One of the other members...
That looks like the Goetz medal for the Battle of Verdun. I don't know much about the series, but they do command a pretty high premium (typically...
Maybe I'm a bit confused, but I thought gold coins were typically struck rather than poured. If the dies had a tin alloy, or if there were flecks...
The B & C mint marks seem to be particularly elusive for the 1 & 2 Francs from 1943 and 1944. Tons and tons of those coins came over to the US...
They look like hammered silvers to me too. The fleur de lis hints at France, while some of the others appear Spanish and German. Any idea how...
There were a lot of brass ponds made. They are the same size and thickness as the gold pieces, but the density of the metal is going to tell on a...
I know nothing about Spanish coins, but I've got to say "Huzzah!" to any metal detecting find that is that pretty. How are French laws of...
It really depends on the buyer. Some would not choose to pay more than a slight premium over bullion for bullion issue coins (no matter what the...
That's a pretty big assumption there. If a cattleman fails to pay off the loan, why would the banker still get paid? Plenty of banks failed in the...
Care to explain? If the money supply stays the same and the supply of items declines, what do you think will happen to prices? In other words, if...
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