this whole series works so much better aesthetically as proof coins. Some of them are quite beautiful. The Hawaii Volcanoes one, and for this year...
http://www.coinnews.net/tools/automated-silver-coin-valuator/ it may not work for your half dime, but it'll help with any standard silver coin
that's a filled mint mark, not an S. The San Francisco Mint was not making coins from 1956-1968 and although the Assay Office there may have...
That's awesome! I had the opportunity to meet Mark once and he is a really nice guy and a darn fine grader, too! LOL
we have some awesome people on this forum and in this community
congrats to nuglet and thanks to lincolncent for completing the promise!!! well played!!
worth every cent that the original owner paid for it (they came for free in the 4-coin gold proof set), yeah, that's right. Not bad for a free...
I paid $6 in 1986 and I think I paid like $7 in 1987 but got mad (at first) when he wanted to charge me $10 for the 1988! I later came to learn...
ok, thanks for the advice! I listed it on eBay if anyone wants to take a peek. It's listed by it's serial number and my eBay username is also...
a much more equitable solution, IMHO and good for your son. I am sorry that you got taken.
He needed to see the rims of the coin I assume, ldhair. Once he did the fact that it was a business strike was likely obvious. That's the...
Kirk, I am NOT defending anyone, especially NOT the seller. The harm of cracking it and re-sealing it is that you weren't allowed to do it and...
There's no justifying it. You crossed the line and IMHO your behavior is worse than that of the seller. The seller's motivations and knowledge...
I don't understand. First of all, you said that when you cracked it out came an AU-58? Did it have a grading cert on it when it came out?...
notice the mirror fields... something absent from kirk's coin
as I have stated, this is far from my area of expertise, but isn't there something about the dentils being more square on these early proof issue...
many of those face value finds are pilfered unfortunately
yes, I do, but I didn't want anyone else to get the wrong one due to bad information
No flying eagle cent is going to be RED. Many may forget that they (as well as IHCs prior to 1863) are copper-nickel and the original mint color...
they are listed in "A Guidebook of Buffalo and Jefferson Nickels" by Q. David Bowers I own quite a few books that he has written and this series...
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