I have been collecting type coins since high school in the 1960s. I completed the set s few years ago from the half cent to $20 gold + the “old...
The flan is partially cracked, but some of the line is raised too which says die crack to me. Maybe the cracked die broke the flan too.
Most of the time the dealers want over $1,000 for Henry I coins which not much better than this. I bought this at a show from Pegasi for a...
I saw another one at a show that had a good portrait, not words on the obverse. The wording is readable on this one if you decipher the medieval...
Oh well. So much for cheap slabbing. Add to that the postage both ways, which has really gotten expensive, and it’s not viable for many gold coins...
Henry I, who ruled from 1100 to 1135 is generally regarded as a good king. He was nicknamed “Beauclerc” (the good scholar) for his studies in...
Yes, they do it, but that is a good reason to get your guard up. As the previous poster said, not all coins in 2X2s and flips are bad, but if it...
Before William the Conqueror died, he picked a younger son, William II (a.k.a. “Rufus”) to succeed him. Rufus was a good warrior, but another...
One of ways that presidential candidates used to draw attention to their campaign medalets was to make them resenble real money. Here is a piece...
Sadly I have to say "fake." There is big patch of roughness on the reverese in the area of "D STA" that should not be there. It's not die rust or...
I would knock this one down to AU-55 because there are a lot of marks in the fields. This illustrates the problem the mint found with the incuse...
AU-58 with a shot at getting an MS-62. These coins are hard to find without a rub because the Indian’s cheekbone and top of the eagle’s wing are...
It’s probably not an MS-60. The TPGs seldom use that grade.
MS-62
PCGS and NGC are the leading grading services. All the rest fall into lower categories. I could discuss why that is, but that’s not what I want to...
What happens is what the collectors “grade-flation.” All of the standards get watered down from the Mint State to the circulated grades over time....
Don’t buy anything but non PVC safety flips. The ones with Poly Vinyl Chloride will break down and secrete a residue on the coins which will...
Cleaning has not been "allowed" at least with respect to maintaining or enhancing value for many years. Let's settle a definition. "Cleaning" is...
Since I've been tagged, it's hard to evaluate a piece when the picture has been taken on an angle. People who sell counterfeit and altered coins...
I don't think that the grade can be any higher than AU-55, and the surfaces are not original. From the photo it appears that that the surfaces...
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