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One-a-year Morgan set, a Dansco 7070, small cents 1857-1958 (or whatever fits in an undated Dansco cent album), lots of possibilities.
What is your budget? What is currently in you collection? How do you prefer to buy your coins?
If you have been offered $5K cash for the coin, take it and laugh all the way to the bank. I'd put it at around $300-400 if it's uncirculated. I...
My thoughts on your thoughts, by requirement: General: Start with the Merit Badge Pamphlet, which will have a lot of information in it. 1....
I would have pulled out my phone and looked at their online inventory while in the store. In the unlikely event anything interested me (a B&M...
It looks like you're trying to set the white balance on the coin rather than a white piece of paper or gray card.
Your coin is strike doubled (machine doubled). Note especially the W in WE. Rather than having two separate sets of serifs and being a bit...
Good books include, but are not limited to: The Red Book of Morgan Dollars (I think this is the Bowers book you refer to) The VAM Book shown above...
All of the above, I guess, because that's what I have in my collection. If I were to choose a word to describe how I like my old coins, I would...
And by this process you become more aware of what you really understand about the coins you're buying. If you're self-aware and perceptive...
I've often amended that advice to, "buy the best coin you can understand at the best price you can."
I'm guessing he runs.
The ones I wasn't able to or just plain didn't buy.
For gold, AU53 is often NGC-speak for XF cleaned.
With almost every bulk order I send to PCGS, one coin comes back mislabeled. It totally screws with my accounting for the submission until I find...
Another method that hasn't been mentioned yet is setting the coin on top of the lid of a cent tube (in the case of a $5 Liberty) and taking the...
In sharp contrast to the "hold my beer" clause.
Please don't come up with a technique involving sitting on the slab.
Interesting technique that I suppose in a pinch would suffice. I have visions of the slab or coin falling between the boards in the deck. Also,...
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