PR-67, Red
The sharpness qualifies as a classic Fine. The "grade-flaters" push this to VF now-a-days. Unfortunately there is environmental damage.
It has too much wear to be an EF-40 unless you are an advocate of "grade-flation" which too many people are. I would grade it somewhere around...
Ultimately Jarvis was unable to get European investors to fund his project, and he defaulted on his contract. Once his employees learned what was...
Greetings fellow inmates! I just learned to day the governor is going to make our house arrest offcial. I hope that I will be able to go out for...
The Red Book states that the 1934 Maryland commemorative half dollar was made to resemble the Maryland colonial Lord Baltimore coinage from the...
No to me. I don't like most of them, but some collectors admire specific counterstamps.
Pr-64 because of what appears to be some cloudy spots.
I am not an expert, and I mostly collect colonial and Confederation coins by type. The value of Connecticut is determined by the state of...
They are nice for what they are for they are, but in the future you might want more as advance as a collector. You are right to look for “hard”...
Since our "prison sentence" just got extened for another month, it's time to dust another old article. I hope you like it. In 1933...
With no hesitation, the 1955 doubled die cent. It's a classic and there is no question as to what it is. When you need to 10X to see the doubled...
I would say no on the 1920 quarter. I had a 1917 Type 1 quarter that looked like that when I was a dealer, a decade + ago. PCGS bounced it back...
Grading services are part truth and part hype. Some servicesare all hype and no truth. When the customer gets what he or she wants, there is not...
Sometimes the marks you think are nicks are actually tiny flaws that were in the planchet before the coin was struck. The dies did not erase them...
In the 1870s, the mint director cited "the evil of having two sizes of gold dollars circulating at the same time." He made an effort to melt as...
A great many Type III gold dollars were used for jewelry. Over the last decade of their run, that was the primary use for them, along with...
When it comes to grades for the late date Type III good dollars, it often depends upon when it was graded and which company did the grading. I put...
1839-O half dollar? Yes
This is never been a coin of great interest to me. Given what I've read here, I'm glad I've stayed away from it. Sorry, but the OP counterfeit...
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