Yup, same as the rest of the thread - plated outside of the mint. PSD.
And that works for you... more power to you. Me? I'd look at that and think the album is worth more than the coins.
The Internet is where sarcasm went to die.
A new thread, with a more on-point title ("how do I protect my self when selling") is more likely to get viewed and ideas.
He asked (not the OP, a reader), I answered... if it bothers you, move on.
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It didn't. Counterstamps/Countermarks are applied after the coin leaves the mint, often for advertising purposes. Early on they advertised local...
They also use reported (private) sales from dealers to get a more holistic view of the market.
Was the package insured? If so, file a claim/report with the postal service, since fraud was attempted against them.
Good liar's poker bill. Pair of 6s. Three 1s. Three 3s. Full house 1s over 3s. etc.
Yes... I figured somebody would figure out the date w/o saying it :happy:, because the business strike and proof mintages - while all small from...
Of those two? Neither. Hate the slick (I can't read the date and you probably can't either once you put it into the album). Not a big fan of the...
Specific gravity is (if you'll pardon the pun) the gold standard test. The ice cube and magnet tests are less direct, they depend on...
Burnished is what the mint calls tumbling the planchets in drums with steel shot to make the surface ... well like it's been hit 1000s of times by...
Some kind of environmental damage, maybe it spent a winter in the grassy median of a parking lot, was found and has continued to circulate, so the...
Snow 1 as in the 1st variety for the 1897. nice find
Or you could show it corrected for inflation as an even more honest presentation.
They had to. The proportion of 1# coins in circulation that were counterfeit is quite high. The Sun said 1 in 30. At some point it becomes a...
John- Or in my case, since it's a set of XF 3CS... I think it's a combination - all four of them, plus two details coins - have been sold by...
For years, the Greysheet prices were treated as ASK prices. BID - for common material - was 10% or so less than Greysheet price. That may not have...
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