Because wealthy women take offense to the idea of poor women being able to parade around with Louis Vutton handbags, that's why. Might lead to...
True story from 2 days ago that's all. 1961 proof sets aren't exactly valuable even in flawless condition.
I won a 1961 proof set as a door prize at the last coin club meeting the other night. It had blotchy tone all over the half, not sure how it got...
Was wondering if anyone else has come across one of these. Purchased from Harlan J. Berk in 2003. Does not have a date, but I suspect it was...
eBay is the government. Just because Meg Whitman lost her quiotic governors race (or was it the senate?) don't think for a minute that eBay...
I'll post an example later this evening of "before and after" using the Windex method. Agree, ammonia isn't something you would want the coin to...
No junk mail? Then I must be special, probably because I was racking up some serious invoices there for awhile before their extortion based fee...
Same with Hitler provided you leave out WW-2 and the Holocaust. But seriously, there were a number of other things about Tricky Dick aside from...
I wonder if they will go back to their original designs if they drop out of the Euro. Kind of doubt Greece will, but Ireland is another story....
I am familiar with red spotting, I have a Czech ducat from 1931 that is spotted so bad its tempting to quarintine the coin lest some of the others...
Well, I'm clearly outnumbered on the proof vs. not proof debate. My doubts about it being a proof stem from the lack of frost on the devices. I...
I've never attempted to clean a valuable proof, however, I have had pretty good luck cleaning less expensive proofs. Hold by edges, squirt with...
There's a 1/2 ounce of the Mexican Libertad up for auction on Tuesday at Robert Mayo Auction Service in Kansas City. Online bidding only, plus...
The 1960 gets the prize.
eBay had the site properly tweeked about 6 years ago and should have stopped at that point. Every change they've added since then has been...
I don't think its a proof. Very nice coin for $100 though.
Anything shipped to a congressmen is going to be opened and inspected looking for anthrax etc. Additionally, I'm certain they xray everything,...
Doesn't look like tone or streaking to me. I would grade it "original uncleaned covered with black crud AU50" --Incidentally, what did NGC grade...
That would seem to be my best explanation as well, though its remarkable how many of them end up graded by NGC and PCGS even though evidently cleaned.
First coin is a Russian kopeck struck under the reign of Tsar Paul I. He was pretty much a whack job that ended-up murdered by his own advisors....
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