And look for Full Steps. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-fs-full-step-designation-for-jefferson-nickels-defined-photographically.49827/ The...
Strictly a price decision. Early Commemoratives are not a primary collection for me so I go for lower grade items.
I'm sort of close (Silver Spring, MD). And I used to go to the shows they had down that way. -- Vienna, VA - 4 times a year (which incidentally is...
Together they were less expensive than any single one of the tough silver commemoratives in the same grades (Hawaii and Old Spanish Trail) and not...
Got my two GC wins today. Both Early Commemoratives. 1903 $1 Louisiana Purchase-Jefferson PCGS MS-63 [IMG] [IMG] 1915-S $1 Panama-Pacific PCGS...
I don't see it.
Oh, I thought he was talking about cards ;-) I play bridge.
One of my odd coin collections is Japanese occupation of China from about 1933 to 1945. Many of the aluminum coins have strange raised dots, often...
Probably my #1 plus for ANA membership.
As a Coin World subscriber I get e-mails from them fairly often. Generally I trash them ASAP. But the latest one caught my attention. It is titled...
I'm not into colorful toning but I do like the quality of your images.
White inserts such as in NGC slabs are a REAL pain when taking pictures. Light reflected from the insert can easily overpower the light coming...
I'm an ANA member so I don't have to join to submit to NGC -- unless they changed that.
Neither coin. I try VERY hard to stay away from the grades of MS-60, -61 or -62. Give me an AU-58 instead. But to be honest I do have several...
Pictures would help. It's not unusual for first year strikes to be better than average.
The S-3 is the Snow variety. The S-3 variety is the only one considered to be a business strike; all the others are proofs. So it's the only one...
21k for an MS-62 1856 FE, S-3
And the turnaround time is an estimate.
Since there's no stamp AND the location is London I suspect it's before 1840. 1840 is when Great Britain issued its first stamp.
My birthday IS on Christmas Day. And so is my great-niece's. Only 70 years difference (76 and 6). My mother used to look at me during Xmas time...
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