Which coin do you mean? Please post a link.
So if an ASE grades less than MS-70 it is junk silver and gets melted? I wouldn't want anything to do with an outfit like that.
Certainly sounds like a pyramid scheme, multilevel marketing or whatever you want to call it. Certainly, some people will benefit from such a...
Welcome to CoinTalk. Does your coin have a "coin turn" or a "meda turn". In other words, when you flip the coin over top-to-bottm is the...
Glad to see ya back, Rick. Your name came up in conversation tonight when I was talking to Acanthite after the ANA Summer Seminar banquet. (Nice...
Day one of the 2-day course - The Chinese Counterfeit Threat - was excellent. Beth Deisher (Coin World editor) and Greg Dubay (expert on Chinese...
Will do, Mike. When I get time.
Although we are taking different courses Acanthite and I have been running into each other several times a day the last two weeks. The courses...
I don't know about "ground down" but, yes, it is an altered '44-D. Note the wide spacing between the second and third digits. If you could see the...
This may be obvious but here goes . . . Why was the term 'mule' chosen for a coin produced from obverse and reverse dies that were not intended...
A couple of more shots of the same fake Trade Dollar.
Another obvious fake Chinese Trade Dollar.
Here is an obvious counterfeit Trade Dollar from China. These are VERY common on eBay.
Here are a few:
Without a pic I can't say for certain but I highly suspect what you have is a Chinese counterfeit of the ASE (American Silver Eagle). I don't know...
I agree. Mike Ellis sat at my table at the banquet tonight. I told him I voted for him and was sorry he didn't win. (I think he is the only one of...
Bill Fivaz's book (United States Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide) is a great place to start. PM me and I can give you a long list of other...
I will be a greeter at the entrance Saturday noon - 1 PM.
Pass. That coin does not look original to me. No luster at all except in a few protected areas.
My Advanced Grading course is going well. This evening I attended the CCAC (Citizens Coin Advisory Committee) open session and found it very...
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