I think he means Reale and I think the BU is where the title cut off the word "but" (And since he was using all caps it came out BU.)
Not bad advice, but you have to remember that NGC only has about 10 years worth of images of the coins they've slabbed and PCGS has very few...
Yes.
The rim is in an area where the obverse design of the second strike is fairly deep and the reverse is also about at it's deepest there. I would...
Acid soaked. Has that "Oreo cookie" effect.
Sounds like a good solution to me. It probably cam about shortly after the first 1998 Close AM cents were discovered which I think was around...
There are several different varieties of the roller press cents. Several years ago at the Michigan state show there was an exhibit that have...
Varieties, 1793 C-2, 1795 either C-2a or 2b depending on lettered edge or plain edge plain edge is extremely rare, 1804 C-6 die stage X, 1806 C-1,...
The 1794 is S-26, the 1798 is S-184, 1814 is S-294, 1820 is N-15, 1838 is N-11.
Those were aftermarket holders. They did not come from the grading services like that. Those holders probably haven't been made for over thirty...
As a reminder of your grandfather it is a wonderful item.
Most if not all of it is in From Mine to Mint, but I've been involved with early US numismatics for something like 40 years and I've picked up a...
The raised rim of metal in the field area at the left edge of the "hole" tells me it was the result of PSD.
It could if there foreign material, a piece of carbon, a little slag etc. If it is imbedded in the ingot it doesn't roll out like the metal does....
I feel your pain. Most anything I want or need now is all slabbed and I won't buy slabbed coins. (Yes I know I could buy them and crack them out,...
1810 at the Royal Mint, Matthew Boulton was strike coinage with steam powered presses in 1787, and used them to strike the British Cartwheel penny...
It can also depend on what yo are looking at. You say cameo proofs, very modern or older series? Very recent proofs tend to be very common with...
That's because about a decade or so ago we started inviting the John Reich Society people to join us at our conventions. After all we have a lot...
The question is whether you can tell for sure whether or not it is a proof, and can you accurately judge the coins condition? If it is a PF 63 or...
Sounds like me. At my place there are coins all over the floor in the bedroom, the kitchen, the living room, here at the office, I even have...
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