Proof set inserts themselves, as well as the packaging, are cardboard. Go with something that is archival, though. Check local craft stores if...
As most others have said, one should buy what they want to collect. I like the classic commems from an artistic standpoint, so I put together a...
[IMG] These guys were born (the actors, not the characters): [IMG]
"Droz" along with the number 19?
If you can make out the name so that you can post that, too, I'm sure that would help.
Actually, I'd recommend putting it on Facebook saying you'd like help returning it to the now 40-year-old to whom his or her late...
Here's a colorful Indian cent from my 2015 calendar: [IMG] Nikon D80, 105/4 Micro-Nikkor, ISO 100, 1/20 sec, f8.
A gift from a great-grandmother to a 1 year old. Too bad the name is illegible.
Taking gold price crystal balls out of the pictures for the moment, that 11-D looks spectacular for a 63, unless I'm totally missing something...
Technically Saint-Gaudens, with a hyphen, too. I also prefer the 1911-D obverse. If the reverse is as nice as the obverse seems, $1400 for it...
It has been for the past few years, but in 2016 it will be in Anaheim.
Definitely fake.
If you want to store the new PCGS slabs in NGC boxes, store 19 per box, such that one slab is using, for example, slot 1 on the left side of the...
Could have been treated with mercury.
Central States, Schaumburg, IL (NW Chicago burbs) late April. Good sized show, Heritage auction, no sales tax on coins, lots of good places to...
If you sell it for $60, you'll be $75 ahead of having done a repair. You can then justify putting the $135 toward a problem-free coin.
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Not sure what I'd call my best picture, but it's hard to go wrong with a really photogenic coin (Nikon D80, 105/4 Micro-Nikkor, ISO 100, 1/20...
I blew so far past my budget, that it takes the light from my budget a million years to reach me. (OK, maybe not that far.)
Better yet, put it in hydrochloric acid until the zinc is gone and you'll have a stencil you can sell for Obscene Profit™.
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