"Common" is kinda relative for '79-S Rev '78; the number bandied about at VAMworls is something like 2% of 1879-S's struck were the 1878 Reverse....
I actually kinda like it for N-3; note what looks like the doubled denticle over the E in UNITED. For the record - hopefully I'm right :) - I did...
No biggie; I could walk two blocks down the sidewalk in my neighborhood and pick up enough to supply him with all he needed. :)
It took a hard glancing hit from the northwest (if you orient the coin to read normally). Metal was pushed down and to the right, creating the...
Ah. I apologize if that came out sounding condescending; I didn't like it when I reread it. The "7 over 8" thing you mention would be a "defining"...
Um, this is the fundamental baseline of coin varieties. You're making me think you don't know what a "variety" is. It takes two dies to create a...
You know me. I've eaten so much crow I've acquired the taste. :)
Hmm. I've had run-ins with a numismatic troll in Tampa. Just a question for your own head - I know you can't release that data publicly - but does...
Those are two entirely different collecting demographics, though. Not to be a downer; just trying to be objective about it. 1B6 has value only to...
I feel like the exact opposite effect will happen - interest in coin collecting will skyrocket because it's the only way to see a "coin" any more.
He waited long enough to cause me to make a fool of myself. :) All the same, it was a good thing because it brought a legitimate conservation...
Is the demand there? PCGS has 17 of these in MS63 now and one of them went for less than $300 at Heritage last December.
Um, I don't think you're seeing this quite clearly....
Something went way wrong there. That's John Hamrick, who has been in the coin business almost as long as I've been alive. It's not exactly a...
Every single pre-Seated issue is already "complete" to that standard (subject to chance and very rare recent findings). Overtons for Bust Halves,...
VAMming is identical in every particular to the other variety attribution efforts of most other issues - it's an attempt to differentiate the die...
It's considered that VAM-2 probably doesn't exist. What does exist, thank Goodness, is a pretty good attribution guide. Your coin has a broken r...
The whole point of RAW is to remove the camera from the processing cycle completely; you can't post a RAW image online in a readable format. The...
Generalities: Luster is best depicted by lighting as close to vertical above the coin as possible. This tends to indicate that your lights should...
Because older coins do not simply track melt value; they have numismatic value which helps to ameliorate the volatility of precious metals prices....
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