My understanding is that coins like this one with a single well placed chop mark on one or both sides, and otherwise fully original, are...
It looks a lot better than most other damaged coins. Took me a bit to notice the funky rim. At least it is spooned consistently.
I’m seeing a bit of porosity. My main concern would be whether it gets into a slab at all.
Waiting impatiently for these to come in the mail. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I really like those designs. I wish we would do a full redesign of US circulating coins.
Wow. As always you have so much eye candy that it’s hard to know where to start. The Athenian Owl is impossible not to like and has a lot of...
The most I’ve ever paid for a modern commemorative, just purchased at a coin shop in Tokyo. Fiftieth anniversary of the first Shinkansen (bullet...
Thanks everyone for the replies. So now I am a bit bummed out. I saw two of these GSA dollars at the shop for 28,000 yen each, which at the...
I just picked this up at a well established coin shop in Tokyo, Ginza Coins. Is there any reason to suspect it is counterfeit? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Beautiful coin! The low 6 digit serial number suggests it was more conservatively graded. I am much more comfortable with those than the 7 digit...
I remember using an elongating machine somewhere in Europe, pretty sure it was Amsterdam. The 5 euro cent was a much better host coin than a US...
It’s fine if they want to jumble a bunch of words together on the portrait to describe the subject, but the denominations and legends need to be...
I have a Vichy era 1000 francs in a non-PQ 58 holder, as well as a 65PQ 100 francs from the same era. French notes in general are beautiful....
For my own personal collecting my “holy grail” is any early Soviet or pre-revolutionary Russian note in clean, problem free condition. For...
This just came in the mail today, my first coin in an NNR slab. From what I’ve seen this grading service is modeled after PCGS and NGC, with the...
Modern quarters have been an area of interest for me as of late, particularly circulation clads from before the state quarter era. I have...
Yes, I doubt that an upper class person would wear a necklace with a currently circulating coin. But for an ordinary person in those days a...
Maybe some people preferred to wear their wealth. Or it was the best jewellery they could afford. Coins have been holed and/or put into...
I see what you are saying now in regard to “winning by pennies”. If someone wins by a bid increment, that doesn’t mean that I could have won with...
To be honest I prefer the Heritage format. It is more transparent when you can see what the bids are. I remember my dad clerking actual in...
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