Are you focused on Liberty or Indian quarter eagles?
I paid $300 for a raw 1972 Ike Dollar back in the late 80's . . . it was a gem BU Type 2, but no one else really understood at the time, and...
Market grading is the assignment of a grade to ensure that the price for the coin in that grade aligns with the current market accepted value of...
My observation was that common gold generally was re-priced downward, some was pulled from cases, and a lot of the better dated gold held its own.
Nice example
I rarely base my purchase decisions on the numerical grade on the holder, whether a cardboard 2x2 or a TPG slab. Instead, I use the numerical...
Expecting to make a profit without truly earning it from their customers.
Bidding wars almost always have everything to do with the item being sold, and nothing to do with the venue. Unfortunately, I have seen far too...
I was about to post exactly this concern when I ran across this post. Security-conscious dealers often disclose less than what is available, and...
Just bought 5 cleaned Liberty gold coins for short money on eBay . . . looking to pre-sell them for an instant profit before I receive them....
MS64
I'm not a foreign coin guy, but to me it looks cleaned and re-toned (naturally re-toned).
Possibly MS62, but more likely AU58. Mostly because there are a great many good looking coins of this date.
UPDATE: Coin did not sell. Seller has relisted as eBay 390948160621. Unfortunately, he has blocked me from further communications, so I went...
Don't all chess boards look alike? :rolleyes:
I realized all too late that I should have completed my text before adding the images, rather than the other way around. As for the pre-strike...
The coin looks just slightly peculiar to me, as if it was bent and has since been re-flattened.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Good question, and difficult to answer. The same phenomenon appears on the coin above, where you can see...
Oh, they'll know alright, but they will likely assign a grade based on what they think the market will perceive the coin to be worth. If likely...
By examination, the terminal tear is at the top of the lamination (at the base of the portico), so the delamination began below the letter "T" and...
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