One of the weird things that PCGS started doing 20 years ago was to mark the label of their slab with wording like "GSA hoard." The message was...
It has some hairlines and the color does not look original. I don't think that it will grade. The sharpness grade is on the low end of VF.
I didn't think that I would get either Gordian I or II Africanus given their rarity. But this one cropped up so I bought it. Gordian I and II...
Most all of the "auction house estimates" that I see are on the low side. I think the strategy is make you think that it will go cheap. That gets...
I have a nice coin, but then there are pieces like this one out there. PCGS graded this MS-65, but my market grade is MS-64 given the envelope or...
Each of the letters, numbers and stars that appear on the very early U.S. were punched into the die with individual tools. For that reason the...
I bid more than four times the estimate on a coin like that and still didn't get it. Second place is no fun in an auction unless you were going...
I get blown out of the water regularly in Heritage auctions, even when I bid full retail or even well above the previous auction results. I don't...
Not THAT rare ... just expensive. Next to the cut-out Gobrecht eagle from a dollar that I saw on-line years ago, the worst Gobrecht Dollar I...
You are free to collect whatever you like, but I've found that I get more out of what I have if there is a rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes I get...
That wooden medal was from a set. Here is a complete one. [ATTACH] My box is in bad shape. My grandmother had a really nice one, but I didn't...
Here is Christian Gobrecht's original design with No Stars on the Obverse. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here is one from some years later. Robert...
Yes, the $1,500 price was listed in the 16th edition of "The Red Book." The book is dated 1963 on the cover, but it was introduced in the spring...
The GSA had dollars that had been in circulation and had seen a lot of use, and they had dollars in mint sealed bags that had not seen the light...
The GSA holders without "Uncirculated" on them sometimes made the coins harder to sell. Hence you heard the cracking sound. Also albums were a lot...
From what I have understood, these GSA dollars were graded by some college students the GSA hired. They gave them a quickee course in grading and...
Yes, these toned coin bring more money than they should, and they encourage coin doctors to ruin coins that were okay before they started messing...
Links don't pose a problem if they are some place like Great Collections or eBay. The trouble can start when the link is to somewhere that is...
Given the fact that the "We" is weak, I would give it a VF-30, but that's the old grade before "grade-flation" took over. I sold several of these...
When you have the chance, you should down load a picture and post it here so that everyone can see the counterfeit before it gets taken down on...
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