Eduard, You seem to outdo yourself with each purchase. Congrats on a great addition to your already stunning collection. Thanks for sharing.
I think Mark meant to say, "Please do NOT think we are attacking you . . . " :goofer: Star Grading Service. He never met a coin he didn't like....
I don't understand the question. Are you asking if you made a mistake by selling them too cheap? Or are you asking if you made a mistake by...
If you're talking about common pocket change I would say that it would be very unreasonable to expect bank employees to search his coins for...
The Red Book should help you. (You do own a Red Book, don't you? If not that should be the first thing you buy.) The Red Book list every Morgan...
You're welcome. Another mystery solved.
It seems odd though that a collect would have bought these fakes thinking they are genuine and then lose them like this. My guess is they are...
Read through this recent thread: USA silver dollar like a Peace Dollar Does your piece look like the one shown in post #11?
Mike is absolutely right. A specific gravity test will tell you what you have. Doing a SG test takes a bit of skill but it is really quite easy....
No. It is not a US Mint product. What you have is a silver round - 1 oz. of 0.999 silver struck to imitate a Peace Dollar.
Hevb, Just a word of advice - Don't buy coins from any place that has the word "Mint" in their name unless it is the US Mint or the official...
You may be right. I may have stretched things by saying coin collecting was banned when actually what was written was "[i]t was forbidden to...
Welcome to CoinTalk. Please post pics.
Frank, What would be the motivation of a counterfeiter to counterfeit those coins? If they are contemporary counterfeits (made...
SMS - Special Mint Sets - were minted for collectors in 1965, 1966 & 1967. During those tumultuous years at the Mint (severe coin shortage, end of...
You're thinking of the segmented collar for Proof Presidential Dollars. Proof Presidential Dollars are struck in a segmented collar (3 segments...
Due to the contunual debasement of the currency the Roman Empire forbade coin collecting under penalty of death. The penalty seems harsh but I...
First, who assigned grades to the coins? Are they slabbed by PCGS, NGC or ANACS? Or are you taking the word of the seller? If the seller is...
I think I'll take the seller's advice and bid "accrdinaly".
The engineer in me wants to call a rotation from \/ counterclockwise to > a rotation of 90 degrees counterclockwise. Afterall, that is how far it...
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