Just out of curiosity, why are you looking over his collection while you apparently don't know much of anything about the coins?
Those images are too small for anyone to be able to provide you with meaningful information.
CDN MS63 bid/ask and MS64 bid/ask are $430/$470 and $720/$785 respectively.
That's good to hear.
The situation you described sounds like an unusual occurrence, whereas I was speaking of "a dealer whose inventory consists primarily of...". Sure...
Thanks Mark. The coin looks "off" to me, though I am not certain precisely, how. Unfortunately, sometimes when I see a counterfeit I know it looks...
I hesitate to comment based on an image. That said, I'm on the conservative side and base don the odds, would be surprised if I graded it MS69...
The contractor who found it has no legal right to it and should have been extremely grateful for the reward that he was supposedly offered.
That's not necessarily true. If you see a dealer whose inventory consists primarily of (I'll be kind, here)coins graded by "less respected grading...
That looks like a wonderful coin. I wonder if it is the Eliasberg example? I also wonder how we are affected by knowing the assigned grade? For...
Neither the edges nor the surface texture/fabric lead me to believe that the coin is a Proof.
If the coin is genuine (and I'm not yet convinced that it is) it looks to me like it could grade AU.
It's not that you were "chicken", it's that you weren't a sucker for an attempted scam.
I'm not claiming to be "gracing" anyone with my presence here - that sounds like sarcasm and defensiveness on your part. After seeing a link to...
It appears that the white balance is off on the images, distorting our view of the coin, but that it is AU.
Thanks for the welcomes folks. I haven't seen the coin in person and don't know how inaccurate the images are, so I can't fairly comment on its...
Albanese Rare Coins is no relation to John Albanese, the founder of CAC. Unfortunately, a large number of people mistakenly think they are...
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