Referring to the OP coin, do you see a denomination on it? D? DOL? DOLLAR? No? Well ALL of the genuine California Fractionals have a...
And then the mint has to replace the disappearing coins which means even greater mintages and higher losses. And has been for over 10 years. The...
The question is was it sold as a fake, and did the dealer buy it as a fake?
From my reading and interpretation of the HPA they would or at least should be in violation. Would you say these items "purports to be, but in...
PCGS also has a somewhat poor reputation on attributions, but at least in recent years they have extended their guarantee to cover them. I think...
If he KNEW it was a fake when he sold it as real, it would definitely be against the law. If he DIDN'T know then while it was technically...
The point of BadThad's pictures is to show the the significant difference in the distance from the 2 to the rim. On the small date you could...
Agreed, but then the question becomes, how would they do it?
There is a typo in that, it should be 75 Spanish dollars not 175.
Confederate bills would be considered to be a numismatic item. A copy would be considered an imitation numismatic item and would therefore have...
In order to be valuable there has to be a greater demand than there is supply. kind of by definition an unpopular series is not going to have a...
Can't tell. All the places where I look for split serifs are either out of the picture, out of focus, or in an area of glare. The best candidate...
The problem you have reading Mint reports is they are based on the Mint Fiscal year, not the calendar year. So the 1974 report came out in 1975...
To continue with what DEA said, R.S. Yeoman wrote two books cataloging world coins by type Coins of the World (the brown book) covered coins from...
I sent John Wright's email to Phillip. Personally it looks to me like an S-77 struck on an older "lettered edge" planchet that wasn't run through...
Silvertowne and Silver City Auctions are affiliated with each other.
This thread shows the reason why I never give an opinion about the color of a coin that is posted online. All it takes is that slight lighting...
Some of those world proof sets can be worth a significant amount. IF you can find the right buyer. Used to be that were all dirt cheap, but many...
At the hospital there are certain procedures that have to be paid for at the time of service. We will take credit cards, and we will take checks....
They used to say the same thing about the passenger pigeon, flocks so large that they took hours to pass by. So why worry about shooting or...
Separate names with a comma.
