True... but remember, one man's junk is another man's treasure, lol.
It would have been interesting to see that coin when it was first minted.
Yep... I guess those were "the good old days" lol.
In my opinion, Walkers make the best coin rings. There's a few on eBay right now:...
Well, you can get fifty of them for about thirty-seven cents each. So there is really no value. Here's a current eBay listing:...
That is one crude fake! The current crop is much better, and all newer ones have the proper edge lettering. Here's another similar thread from...
I have reservations about rarity scales, especially in trying to determine the "rarity" of more common coins....
Here's a recent one... there's many more: http://www.cointalk.com/t203281/
And not too pricey either: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ITALY-SARDINIA-1796-5-SOLDI-/261015336801?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc5b9f761
True. There has been more than one thread on CT showing the damage NCS has done while attempting to "remove" black spots on Lincoln cents.
From eBay's policy on bid retraction: "You're not allowed to retract bids to manipulate the bidding process, like trying to find out the maximum...
It's just hard to convince us older guys that what we believed as a kid was totally wrong. Doug was able to understand this... the rest of us are...
Even with the old "nursing home expenses" format, this coin didn't sell.
Well, I'm almost as old as Doug, and I've NEVER agreed with anything he's said.
Well, I can tell you this much... that "store collectoer" knows NOTHING about coins or the minting process, lol.
Does "countfeit" have the opposite meaning of "counterfeit"?
I'm thinking a few bidder's failed to read the fine print at the end of the auction description: "I made a small typo in the body of the...
43 bids and at 19.5K+ with over two days remaining; it's amazing that this same auction (with subtle variations) has been selling on eBay for years.
See... that's the Ruben we knew and loved a few years back.
That surface appearance is somewhat typical of lower quality Chinese counterfeits. The dies used for the newer high quality replicas are much better.
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