I have been attending FUN since 1990, and now take a table at the show every year. It is a great place to see most anything numismatic that...
The errors ihn this case are accidental defacement of US coinage.
I think that all depends . . . on whether the report you refer to is the one the BL&S receives, or the one it issues . . . those can be two...
While this forgery is not in it, I recommend you buy a copy of Bill Fivaz' book United States Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide. It will instill...
Agreed . . . although the Sheldon grade multiplied by the basal value worked only for widely available issues. He employed other factors for...
There are several factors . . . Like Gold Dollars, the numismatic premium above gold content is still substantial, so they can justify making...
What you wrote, except that the Sheldon Scale is intended to compare the states of quality / preservation of different coins, but not their value...
Here we go again . . . another forgery on eBay . . ....
The Sheldon scale was intended to provide us with a basis for communicating the state of preservation of a coin relative to its ideal state - my...
I think the cent is really cool, although it also looks to me like it's had some help over the years. My suspicion is that the clamshell delam...
This example may be somewhat confusing to those unfamiliar with this error type. The die cap with which this coin was struck had seen many...
Looks like a very high quality casting to me.
Net high end VF coin
It may be the photo, but the color on the reverse looks a little too pinkish to me. As for the hairlines mentioned above, I think the lines seen...
I don't know . . . what do the rest of you zinc about that?
Th You are wide to do your homework before just jumping on the coin. While I'm no foreign coin aficionado, I can attest that there are a great...
Critiquing my own post, now that it's too late to edit it . . . the above should have read, "More important than grading an error coin is valuing...
Your guess is probably just as good as anyone else's . . . beauty of this one is in the eye of the beholder, just as value is . . . if everyone...
Gotcha. So, not surprisingly, you bought it for more than the $975, which I would have done myself.
If you're buying inexpensive coinage, I would focus on the silver coinage while it remains relatively low in cost. Prices for copper, nickel and...
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