Coins played a major role in the 1896 presidential campaign. The designs for the Morgan Dollar and the U.S. gold coins appeared on a number of...
It looks like an MS-64 under the ugly toning. It's not for me.
How can it be "sold out?" It's not even law yet.
Yes, if the mint is only going to make collector versions of the coin, switching back to bronze makes a lot of sense.
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It would nice to see the 1921 High Relief Peace Dollar design fully struck. I hope the new coins don't end up like the gold version of the Mercury...
Over the years I found the grading on the 1907 No Periods $10 gold to wildly inconsistent. The big problem is that the coin was softly struck, and...
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[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The 1982 Seven Piece Set By 1982 the price of copper had reached the point where it cost the mint system more than one cent to...
Photos courtesy of Heritage Auctions [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 1922 Plain In 1922 cents were only produced at the Denver Mint. Apparently, the demand...
One of the YNs at my local club asked me to write this and given a presentation on the Lincoln cent. Here it is. I have not been an active Lincoln...
I never said it was a Matte Proof. I said perhaps someone tried to make it look like one. Back in the day one method was to dip the coin in acid....
Maybe someone wanted to try and sell it as a Matte Proof. Here's the real thing. This is currently bid on the Grey Sheet at $32,000 in PR-64....
But pieces without major problems fit better. You have cleaning and significant marks.
That is a okay buy for $5, but don't make a habit of it. Such coins are not easy to re-sell. They end up in large cent junk boxes.
The are five obverse Monitor varieties listed with the Civil War tokens there are a few others that are not listed as Civil War tokens. Here are...
I find auction estimates to be consistently low. They are there to entice more bidders who might think that they are going to get a bargain. Once...
Here is my example. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Denarius of Julia Domna, Obverse: IVLIA AVGVSTA “Julia augusta” Reverse: MATER AVGG “Mother of augustus.”...
There are a certain number of collectors who think that they are "buying at market prices" when they go nuts in an auction. They aren't. They are...
Sorry, but I get tired of people telling me that buyers' fees don't matter, and that the biders don't end up paying any more. If you are a...
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