I have heard them called "mint disks." They are made of plastic and put in the spare pocket of the mint sets for the Philadelphia and Denver Mints...
The EAC grading system is much stricter than the TPGs on most items. What the grading services might call MS-62 might make no more than AU-50 or...
NGC graded a lot of the Eric P. Newman collection liberally also. This ex Newman Vermont portrait copper was in an NGC AU holder when it was sold....
Jules had a wide variety of detailed variety sets. For example he collected the early half dimes by Valentine variety. I collect them by Red Book...
I am not sure that I would grade that 1897 Liberty Nickel as an MS-67. I see small "carbon spots" which are one of factors that hold these coins...
I only have a book to Jules sent to me as a gift. Jules was a student at the University of Delaware when my mother went there. She knew him from...
A lot of the coins that show slide marks are in collectors’ albums. The coins are not worth enough to send to a TPG for grading, so they never see...
I saw the coin in person; you didn’t. It was in the album. I took the photos. I saw the cause of its problem. You come back with an attack. I have...
Here is an example of album slides can do. It was enough to make me cry because I love the early half dimes. This was once a really nice...
Sorry, but I disagree. I've seen slide marks on straight graded slabbed coins on more than few occasions. If you leave the highest points of the...
You don't have to buy junk for the common dates. Unless you after the Cameo coins, the best place to find them is in intact, never opened Proof...
Here is a really nice 1950 Proof set. The 1950 Proof coins tend not to come nice. The mint had not issued any Proof coins since 1942, and the...
Here is an example of a Cameo Proof Franklin Half Dollar. NGC called it a cameo. The obverse is "all there," but some might question the revere....
I bought this 1798 cent a couple of years ago when I had visions putting together a date set of large cents. It is an S-179, fairly common, and...
They have more money than brains. :wacky: He will probably get it "to stick" this time. One of the things about eBay is that some dealers I have...
And there is a strong chance that it has been dipped. There is nothing wrong with that in my opinion, but a number of collectors don't agree with...
Bright and shiny silver coins sometimes sell better to the uninitiated collectors who think that, somehow, a coin that is now over 100 years old...
Standing Liberty Quarters are noted for being dateless coins. Most of those pieces were minted from the 1917 Type II through 1924. The dates were...
In the case of Proof coin, slabs are a good ideal, at least for the better dates (1950 - 1955) because the slab provides great physical...
There has been a dedicated group of collectors forming since the late Jay Cline wrote several editions of his book on the subject. This goes back...
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