Here are photos of fake 2015 Proof American Silver Eagles the Chinese issued a couple of years ago. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Not all Chinese counterfiets have the look of the circulated Morgan Dollars. They are also making "Proof" pieces with a shiny finish. Here a...
It does not look like a Proof to me, but to be honest I really can’t tell much form that picture because the lighting or something is making the...
Your photos only re-enforce my opinion that the coin is a Chinese counterfeit. As I said before, most people don't sell $300 coins for $50. This...
It refers to Van Allen - Mallas die varieties, VAM for short. In the 19th century decreasing amounts of hand labor went in to making coin dies,...
The Philadelphia Mint made all of the dies in those days and sent them to the branch mints. At least one 1861 dated gold dollar die was sent to...
You need to show us both sides, and you need sharper pictures. The ideal thing is to use a tripod or some other camera steadying device. If you...
Truly Mint State Classic Head gold is very scarce to rare. There were almost no collectors in The United States when these pieces were issued....
Maybe they didn't look at the part of coin that much. I know when I was collecting these coins back in the late 1980s and early '90s, I was always...
Here is a genuine 1853 quarter eagle that you can compare with the fake shown above. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Click on the on the full sized image, you will see alot more that is wrong with it. Here is a genuine example. It's got so rim damage at 12 k on...
It has been my experience that the error rate is much higher than that. On another blog, I set it at 5%, and the CAC advocates ran off with that...
I am quite sure that these Douglas MacArthur coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint. As the prvious poster said, the Philippines was a U.S....
Yes, I own them. The Gobrecht Dollar is the original 1836 coin turn piece. It is graded PCGS PR-62 CAC. The 1836 gold dollar is a PCGS PR-64....
Many people talk about collections that consist of “a box of 20.” It stems from the fact that the standard NGC and PCGS boxes have room for 20...
Okay, what is the cut-off date is the cut-off between ancients and medieval? Is the beginning of the Plantagenet era, 1165, or does it go to the...
In the Heritage auctions, you click on “foreign coins” not “ancient” to get to these coins.
It’s probably not silver. Most all of the Chinese fakes I have were not silver. As for not coming back to pay the pawn ticket, I am reminded of...
You can buy the 1889-CC raw, but you have to know what you are doing. You just can't look at the date and mint mark and think that settles the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here is Lincoln ferrotype badge, which features photographs printed on a thin piece of iron, which shows Lincoln without the...
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