Yup! :)
Well, think about it. You are paying for the grader's opinion*, not a particular grade, and his opinion is that you have a...
My first reaction also, but both sides couldn't have been touching the rollend paper. :confused:
Although I don't collect Morgans, I understand that a VAM number is the number assigned to a particular die variety or combination by one of the...
Unless it's a whole bunch better than their pocket 30x microscope, it will be overpriced no matter how small the cost, due to its tiny field of...
Welcome to the forum. If either of those dates is correct, you have a Peace Dollar, with an effigy of Liberty on the obverse and a side view of an...
I think we all agree on that! Which explains a lot. Think about it, whizzing/brillo padding/polishing/etc. leave scratches - incuse marks on the...
I read Atomz' question as being how to be sure you don't have a counterfeit, not whether genuine items have the stipulated content. "Offered by...
There are only two ways that I know of to be sure you have a real bullion coin: 1) Submit it to an assayer to scientifically test the metal...
Are you sure of that? I collect very few U.S. coins so I claim no expertise about them, but my 2003 edition of the Red Book does list proof...
According to your reference site it's a pattern, of which there are only 10 in existence. What makes you think you have found an eleventh?...
Based on the dates at the left and right of the head, the script seems to be Arabic-Turkish. I believe those dates are 1295 and 1324, which would...
Oh ye of little faith - doubting the word of a zero feedback seller with no pictures to post of his $10K "1883-1913 EXCELLENT CONDITION" coin....
That's a very important first step in the attribution of a coin as genuine/fake. The ability to produce accurately weighted planchets was...
Tough as it is to grade from pictures, my guess is that you have a borderline F/VF. That 5.39g of .800 silver has a bullion value of 80-85¢, but...
Which is just another way of expressing the truism that you don't necessarily "get what you pay for", but you almost never get more than you pay for!
Reading the books is an essential step, but it is far from being sufficient. You really, really need to grade hundreds (preferably thousands) of...
Along the same line, if you are collecting a country, don't forget its offshoots - leprosarium coins for example. In the case of my specialty,...
Spoken like a true collector! :)
Actually, it's .900 silver alloyed with the copper. That was the standard composition of U.S. coins with a face value of 10¢ or more through...
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