I agree that this coin shows too many parallel hairlines in the fields to be due to anything BUT deliberate human activity. My photos show it in a...
Great news, and the ultimate happy ending will be conviction of the crooks!
I was thinking VF too, and very attractive with few marks.
A while back, he had an 1877 IHC listed that Rick Snow outed as a very high class fake. He immediately took it down when Rick contacted him. I've...
Being a trade dollar collector, I'm biased. The photos don't give me a lot of information, but from what I see I think it is probably authentic.A...
I just got home from the office, I swear, I know you're all on the edge of your swivel chairs (LOL). Here's a photo of the label: [IMG]
That mule won't plow!
Yakpoo wrote: "The one table that had the most items of interest to me...and had a dealer that I "connected" with was Eugene Bruder of Chico,...
Alf, that 38-O no stars dime looks really sweet! A recent buy of mine is this 1910 half eagle, pcgs au55, from my Dad's year of birth....
The first '39 posted has a reverse that looks like a Hubble photo of deep space. That's the one I'd keep- a universe on the back of a copper penny!
I've bought from him many times, mostly raw coins, and have been pleased. First rate service, and the few times that I have decided to return the...
The position of the twin lights brought that one out. In hand, it is unobtrusive. The hairlines don't extend onto the devices, and to the naked...
It looks like "Barn*cl* Bil*" (asterisks where I'm not sure of the letters)
Toe jam!
Mark, if I only had $34.5k sloshing aimlessly in my bank account.....
Thanks for your opinions. Any others? If you're bored, have a close look at the details....
Matt, if that is a cleaned coin, I'm..... I don't know what !! Mark, that is a gorgeous coin.
This is a recently purchased Trade Dollar. It is in a PCGS slab. How do you think it graded? Did it grade, or is it in a 'genuine' slab? I will...
You're right! He was pretty old at the time, and mom thought the breeze would blow him over (The monument is on an open, exposed bluff) but he...
That coin appears to have nice details, but a very unnatural patina (or lack thereof). I would not like it in my collection. I need one for my set...
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