As is often noted, grading from a photo is not very authoritative, you need to hold the coin, turn it this way and that, look at the details from...
I think to truly qualify as a hated coin you would have to actually deface any examples you found, but the one I run into and think is a real dog...
I enjoyed this back and forth, and I applaud the participants for not letting a disagreement degenerate into becoming personal. I do not see...
I have been pretty busy lately, my job has been going 10 hours a day pretty steadily, I am getting my dads house and yard ready to sell, but last...
Could it be a counterfeit? I think there is a book out there about capped bust halfs counterfeits, they were pretty common back when capped bust...
" we need to be careful what we ask for...we might get it!" There was an old story called the monkeys paw, where people would get three wishes...
The buyer got a deal, ebay made its money, the seller would have been better off just selling to a local dealer for melt value
I would rather have "dead" presidents represented on our coinage than live ones. But I would rather have idealizations of certain virtues more...
I enjoyed this post, it could be an article or a blog entry. I was thinking about this while at work the other day, I work hard and I was thinking...
nice coins, good prices
Gold is a hedge against inflation, but it does have its ups and downs, IOW inflation can rise ten percent in a year and gold might go up 25...
Between the two, the first photo looks better to me
What sparked my interest in this hobby was researching the values of coins that my dad left in his estate.
If you are selling the coin to a collector, the slab will add cost to the coin, possibly putting it out of the collectors price range, if you are...
as everyone says, it is best to grade it in hand, but from the photo, I would I would grade it ms-63 pl (posssibly dmpl), that said, try looking...
quote"Because the planchets for proofs are burnished before striking, it is unlikely that polishing after striking will produce the same mirrored...
Proof coins do not have the cartwheel effect, so how could one tell if a coin was polished expertly enough to seem to be a proof coin? or if a...
since this seems to be the complaint department, here is my complaint, first I think Lincoln was one of our best presidents, and better yet a good...
Good article on luster, and what the difference is between mint luster and shine. When it comes to proof coins, how could one tell if the...
An interesting discussion, I think that shmolo is to be commended for an honest effort on behalf of a friend. I say this because I had to get an...
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