I'll cast my vote in the genuine camp as well.
What in that ad implies to you that there is a mint on the moon?
So you'll cross it into a PCGS holder with translucent prongs that cover even more of the rim of the coin.
It's not GOING for $240,000, he's ASKING $240,000. It isn't going for that amount until someone actually bids on it, or in this case agrees to...
NGC has always used slabs. they only time you might see something with NGC and not a slab would be a bodybaged coin.
Since he is a Morgan dealer there is another advantage for him, ANACS is pretty much top of the line for VAM attributions, more reliable than PCGS...
One of the members here, Jack Young, has a series of articles on Coin Week that shows many of these counterfeits, and they have ALL gotten into...
That is correct...and tens if not hundreds of thousands of silver plated ones came from the TV coin sales hucksters.
Whatever it brings. There probably aren't enough verifiable sales to create a firm estimate.
I think the only confusing thing that most sellers would say is "How does he get these bidiots to buy his coins when I can't sell better pieces at...
Overall, yes the restrike is much rarer, BUT the 1823 business strikes are rare in VF and above. It is fairly easy to find in VG or lower, tough...
The three marks to the right of the L are contact marks from the edge of another coin.
As someone else who went to school in Kentucky, his comment made perfect sense to me. 10th grade History class, most of the students couldn't...
I didn't pay attention to what the coin was he wanted to submit. Yes, but not if you only have one coin you want to send in.
You probably don't hear too much about them because they don't really make products for the consumer market. They make coinage blanks for more...
Yes cheapest is going to be to piggyback on someone else's submission, otherwise the shipping and the invoice fee are killers. If you can...
Maybe, but it doesn't help much if everyone else still blames you. :)
With possibly just a few exceptions the counterfeiters stopped making cast fakes thirty years ago or more. Pretty much everything since then has...
Business strike, mintage of 142,000, one of the more common Commemorative dollars
Quite possibly. On a whim I just googled "1964 half dollar", and on just the first page were at least two articles (including the very first one)...
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