I agree the buyer got a good deal, but I disagree with the original buyer "lost". How much enjoyment did the original owner gain from owning them?...
The term comes from bags of Morgan dollars. When coins are in a bag, during movement they tend to hit each other and make little dings on the...
I find a lot of new collectors, when seeing 1960's coins, believe the coin is unusual. In the 1960's the mint actually struck coins with relief,...
I was just at a local coin show Sunday and a couple of dealers had junk halves for 13.8x. One had probably 1000 halves in his pile for sale, WL,...
I agree. The second coin especially looks a little "baggy", but could be the slab. To me, any slab is simply an opinion of grade, one which I may...
Could it happen naturally? Yeah, but it would be exceedingly rare. I would be a lot more comfortable with it if there were a touch of progression,...
I treat it like the old adage, "never clean a coin". Sure its tiresome for experienced collectors, but has been indispensible advice to tons of...
Anyone who drinks the koolaid of giving undue weight to the grade on the holder is the one who is going to end up with a pile of overgraded coins....
St Gaudens = Beautiful coin, a work of art especially in UHR. Kennedy = Pedestrian example of boring subject matter combined with lackluster coin...
I own quite a few AU bust half dimes, and that coin is an XF. Its not AU in my book in any way. Maybe VF35 was a touch harsh, (I don't know if it...
Honestly, I do not think I was ever in the situation to decide. I have always only used money that I didn't "need" for my hobby. Therefor, I was...
I have the set and some "extras". They made some interesting gold coins in the 50's not listed as coins. For some reason they are in the back of...
I think Old PCI = 25, new PCGS = 50 kinda says it all about the modern slab game to me.
I agree some eastern mints at times can have sprues. Maybe they simply removed them better by then. I was thinking of many provincial and greek...
A couple of disagreements. I do not think we have ever seen evidence of casting sprues in denari, or even LRB, so I highly doubt the flans were...
Excellent idea actually. I have "tested" new dealers occasionally by pretending to have inherited some coins, and see what their reaction is....
Maybe, but if there was a witness and the dealer could not prove he paid the customer more I think there would be a strong case. Unfortunately you...
I would have called the police. In many jurisdictions this is felony theft. A dealer has a higher responsibility than a collector. If they knowing...
Roman Imperials always have a fuzzy starting line to me. Do you start classifying them after Augustus as Roman coins, or when Rome effectively...
Unusual coin. Reverse well struck up but obverse bust looks a little mushy. I would guess instead of weak strike worn obverse die myself. Grade? I...
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