The mint tried to hire experienced coin makers from Europe, but all of those efforts fell through. The first mint ended up becoming an amateur...
The same reason why those who handle a lot of valuable assets have to post bonds or get insurance today. If money or valuables turn up missing,...
Great write-up! You go into far more detail than I do. As a generalist “helicopter collector,” I have pennies from most of the kings that you...
These three coins are among the three most difficult to find U.S. type coins. The mintages were very low, and many coins were melted because they...
I think you are better off, and I hope the reverse works out for you too. Believe it or not, that will tone down. I owned an 1800 half cent that...
I bought that piece at a Baltimore show about four years ago. I didn't go there looking for it because I had the other variety of the 16 star 1797...
The prices for the 1796 Quarter have gone up a lot since the 1980s. The day I bought the one you see above, there was another one on the same bid...
According to what I have read, he had a smaller hoard of 1796 half dollars too.
Prices were different in those days. It cost less than $500. When I was a dealer, I had one in an MS-62 holder that was slightly nicer than that...
I completed that set a few years ago. They are quite impressive.
This IS NOT an error coin. If you send it in thinking you are going to get that, you are wasting your money, but I guess there is no use trying to...
The latest pictures make the coin look completely different. Now it looks like one of these old dollars that have not been fooled with. I would...
The bad news is they are not worth a lot of money. The news is they are easy to sell, especially now with the prices of gold and silver headed up.
The mint system did away with mint marks on coins to discourage collectors from hoarding them. In the mid 1960s, coin collectors were the #1...
It has the sharpness of an EF-AU coin, but it is corroded. When a copper-nickel coin corrodes, it turns brown or black. As it is, a dealer might...
Here is a 1943 steel cent with the original surface. It has frosty luster, not shiny luster. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It may have been dipped before it was slabbed and not properly rinsed. Overtime the residue has killed the coin. It didn't look that bad when it...
When I was a dealer, I retailed them for $1 a piece. That was for the nice ones in Good that had not corrosion or any other issues, just wear....
The 1943 steel cents were made of steel with a zinc coating. The zinc oxidized quickly which made them look grey, like the second piece you...
When James Ruddy was selecting the coins for his Photograde book of United States coins, he stated that the hardest coins for him to find were the...
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