I'm actually hoping to get over there Friday afternoon -- looking to get opinions on some coins a friend inherited. I may go back Saturday,...
Welp, here we are -- an "old gold" coin with a "young enough to be my child" birthdate. ;) :oldman:
That 1914 half is a key date in the series. In that condition it's definitely a $100+ coin.
Huh, never seen one of those before. I thought for a moment that it was like a couple of dime albums I've seen, where they went ahead and added...
Nah, I was just making a joke off the fact that they botched the cover art. And it's interesting to see that they do have dates inside, but not on...
That's a lot! Hey, the two undated "Lincoln Wheat Cents" albums have Lincoln Memorial cents as the cover image. Rare error albums? ;)
Yeah, the tape would've protected the coin from the elements (air, plus sulfur compounds from the album's paper). You can remove the residue by...
Same here (Durham, NC) -- I passed through with my parents in the late 1970s when it was still a tobacco hub, and we toured a cigarette factory....
If you want to be a "low quality" leader, you're going to have to down your game quite a bit. ;)
I love, love, love that they found a commercial tenant willing to move into an historic structure. Around here, everybody wants to knock down a...
Here's how to catch that particular fish: [ATTACH] (Assuming image upload is working today, looks promising.) Look at the other figures -- Most...
To be fair, it doesn't say Barber. Don't judge an individual by the company it keeps. ;) Doesn't Whitman still sell general...
Those would be halves, and that's quite a starter set. (A 1901-S quarter would buy the whole set several times over, though.) That 1908-O looks...
My impression is that these photos are overexposed, and sellers frequently use that to hide the signs of cleaning. Hairlines in the fields mostly...
I'm pretty sure he meant "gold coins that got a bean", not "coins that got a gold bean". Although he might well have some gold coins with gold...
It's unlikely to do anything. That looks like terminal toning, which is a black layer of silver sulfide, which won't come off without dipping (or...
Those missing horizontal components on letters are a classic tell for low-end fakes.
Looks promising, although I can't tell from those photos whether it's been cleaned -- it almost seems like there are signs of hairlines on the...
I love the holograms. "We'll say it's genuine, but we won't say who we are." But yes, the thing in the slab genuinely exists, just like the...
Getting blocked by their paywall when I try to scan it in a private window (so I don't accidentally use up whatever free-article quota they see...
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