The term for the ribbon tying back the hair on what we refer to as the Draped Bust coins is fillet, and the coins used to be caller fillet heads...
Probably won't hit the market. I don't believe Turkey allows artifacts to leave the country.
They are sonicly sealed which as mentioned melts the plastic. If too much pressure is applied to the shell during the sealing this plastic can...
Yes, too bad it didn't have the N-10 rev. (N-5 = Obv N-4/Rev N-10 I think it is still an R-7 with around 5 known)
If has changed several times over the years. Back when I started collecting the Sellers paid the commission, usually 10%. Then tit changed to a...
I don't believe it's by the same artist, That is a Conder token from Middlesex, and I believe the engraver for that was John Hancock of Birmingham.
That was a nice coin too. The adjustment marks don't bother me either as they are part of the actual production of the coin.
Remember these are the prices Mehl was PAYING to people with no numismatic knowledge. These are NOT the prices a collector would be paying a...
A snipe bid is a max bid placed in the last few seconds of the end of the auction like the last 3 to 5 seconds. It won't win out over a...
As mentioned not a DDO, Longacre doubling and the 2 is what is referred to as a "Heavy 2" The die was chipping and filling in the spaces in the...
It's not so much the cloth as it is dust. Dust tends to have a fairly high silica content and silica is harder than the silver. With a little...
That's probably .77% silver So that adds up to 98.77%, he didn't giver the percentages of zinc and nickel but hey probably added up to most of...
They will still do that if you don't want it slabbed in the original holder. There were very few Peace dollars in the GSA sales and all of them...
The problem with these is like Continental currency dollars, for every genuine there are thousands of fakes.
Actually used right they can be helpful. At the auction house I have the most interest in, they post estimates, and I find that most of the time...
The Star Rare Coin Catalog was the prices Mehl would pay to people that had no idea what their coins were actually worth.
Well we COULD try them in absentia but even if you get a conviction there would be no way to enforce a judgement (unless the counterfeiter decided...
Sometime after July 1st.
I searched his postings and found the images. You are right not a DDO, common machine doubling.
Even in low grades where the motto is completely worn away it can be easily identified by the outermost leaf below GOD. On the large motto that...
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