If the coin is as lifeless in person as it appears in the images, then it has definitely been cleaned, probably dipped to death. If it is...
I'll be at the Nashua Show.
I've always recommended Buffalo Nickels as the most fertile ground for the collector wanting to learn. I can think of no other series where you...
MS66 (as if I know my foreign coins, which I don't).
He also sent me images of an 1868 $3 Gold he was about to list. That coin is also no good. The numerals in the date were of the wrong geometry,...
No, the date is incused, but the raised portion of the numerals (cut into the dies) is missing. It is that portion of the date and lettering in...
Fake 1908 Half Eagle . . . http://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-5-Indian-Gold-Indian-Head-/251710981311?ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123 . . . Seller has...
I would expect that, with so many coins of this type being value graded, and their various positive and negative attributes, it would be a...
In nearly every case where I have sent / received a package torn by the USPS, it mattered not whether the coins were generously wrapped . . . the...
XF Details, Cleaned.
I can't stand the overwrapped shipments I get from other sellers. I spend lots of time peeling it all away from coins without damaging them,...
I'm not on the same page Doug. I contend that market grading and value grading are one and the same. When the TPG's were first formed, and for...
55 DD are in a market correction right now, so biding one's time is a good idea.
Absolutely. I can recall the earliest days of PCGS when the slightest bit of high point rub automatically limited the grade of a coin to AU58....
Please note that I was careful to use the words "Consciously or not . . . " The high submission volume of moderns is a flash-in-the-pan. Just...
With a finite number of coins worth grading, and the need to maintain their business volume, they must provide some incentive to pay for their...
Love the dime . . . I was underbidder on a coin just like it on eBay sometime in the past couple of years.
At the link below is the only coin I have seen with multiple RETAINED CUDS on it . . . very cool!...
Here is a deeply toned 1872 Seated Dollar graded XF45 by NGC. Color is more vibrant than conveyed by the photos. Price = $850 delivered. -...
Naturally, it depends on grade but, generally, the most available dates in Libs seem to be 1878 and 1900 through 1907. Among the Indians, the...
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