I like the clash. It's what would interest me in a non US Mint issue.
Agreed. I have trouble separating the modern grades from the traditional ones and sometimes overcompensate for the Grade Inflation.
For what it's worth, I think you'll get lowballed until someone conserves it by the proper application of verdegone or similar product to remove...
It really depends on who is bidding on them. The details are sharp enough that some might grade it close to MS detail and the net grade is really...
I was 6 in 64, but this was the point at which coin collecting reached it's peak in popularity. Most people collected in a set of Whitman folders...
Which brings up the point about why should the government not a private organization which does do work which the government supports and desires...
I hadn't thought of that.
I know it's a N-3, but that variety is described as "no cracks seen" in John Wrights Cent Book and yours obviously has a either a strong crack at...
WOW! Just WOW! I love the Draped Bust series in general and this is perhaps the prettiest half I recall seeing.
Supply and Demand for each grade is the answer. Many coins are scarce in some grades and not others, especially with silver dollars where often...
This is what happens when people start living on promises rather than actually creating THINGS. Why should gold be any different than Credit...
I'm unaware of any, but Christians tend to tolerate such things as long as their not encouraged or required to condone or pay for those things....
And here is the quandary. I do not want our government promoting the religious belief system of secularism. So the promotion of God or lack of God...
I have no specific references to this, but a good handle on the nature of people in general and specifically to those who are pius. Do you have...
I do wonder sometimes if the dealers prefer uncleaned coins because they can add value to those by cleaning/conserving them. As usual, there will...
If the coins are conservatively graded, then a higher price is to be expected if you try to compare them to liberally graded price guides. I'm...
He was in business when I was a kid 40 years ago. I think he ran adds in Coinage back them.
At least your buyers remorse was relatively cheap. Mine cost about $300. But they sent me what they offered and I accepted by bidding, so it was...
Just as today, some object to having the motto on the coins, some would have seen the portrait of Liberty as promoting (as opposed to...
Of course a general statement reflecting something truthful (general Trust in God and not God per say) will never be universal. If we wait for a...
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