Looks like the first cent had been glued to a board, then popped off. I also don't see anything abnormal about the mint mark on the 51-S.
Wear goggles, please. It's hard to look at a coin with a shard of plastic in your eyes.
Nobody here whose last name isn't Madoff is going to guarantee that any coin you buy will go up in value between now and the time you sell it. If...
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The thing is, if there's a coin that is a tough call one way or the other, you don't want it to be called a SMS coin. You want it in a business...
Yeah, it's a little nasty. If you look at the pictures that the Smithsonian uses and the one on the cover of the Garrett/Guth U.S. Gold...
To be pedantic, you don't have a coin. With a picture of the other side, we might be able to tell you specifically what you do have. Here's what...
Value? Yes. Obscene Profit™? No. There are many 1960-D RPMs and few are worth tens of dollars in run-of-the-mill grades.
Take a look at 1881-O VAM 5 on VAMWorld. I've seen uncirculated, slightly PL specimens of this coin and O/O makes more sense than O/S. Breen's...
This immediately preceded the good PCI, and probably dates to the late 1980s. The coin is very attractive and would probably upgrade to at least...
That was a good candidate for PCGS's reconsideration service. The reverse looks more XFish in the new picture than in the first, although I still...
I have the latest Snow book, so I'll let you know what I see.
<shameless-self-promotion> Send it to me. :D </shameless-self-promotion> Very cool coin, though. Can't say I've ever seen a PL Flying Eagle....
Boy, would I be pi$$ed if someone called a genuine coin I was selling on eBay a counterfeit on a public message board. I'm all for outing...
I couldn't even afford the monthly payment on the buyer's fee.
Except that it's a VAM 8.
The article is wrong about the VAM 9 being "by far" the rarest. This was once thought to be the case, but it appears that VAM 7 and VAM 7A are...
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Here's the link to the article, which is shown in QDB's silver dollar encyclopedia, which is available in its entirety, so it seems, on PCGS's...
I do find the little "globe-shaped" hologram mesmerizing. It's like the slab is staring back at you and reporting back to the mother ship. OK,...
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