As Doug Winter said, "If you did not do well at the 2026 Winter FUN show, you are in the wrong profession."
These two are among the more famous Roman imperial coin rarities. If the portrait has hair, it's Gordian I, the father [ATTACH] If he's bald,...
I think that you might have both adjustment marks and damage. The thicker lines in the center of the obverse look like adjustment marks. The other...
I bought this one when I was a dealer and kept it. It's NGC graded AU-58, but it would not shame a Mint State type set. [ATTACH]
Here are a couple of real ones. This one is in my one a year cent set. It's graded EF-45. [ATTACH] I bought this one raw from a member of the...
I gave up on the base metal Proof sets more than 10 years ago. I have collected only the silver sets after the State Quarter ended in 2009. With...
The obverse and reverse of the 1968-S cent look like two different coins. The obverse is an easy “BU.” The reverse is a scruffy AU. The Ike...
There no where near enough red on that cent to call it R&B.
Some of government’s inserts are not inert. Many Proof sets, like the 1970-S, are notorious for promoting toning on the cent. A large number of...
MS64,Brown
My grandmother was born in 1883. She had this love token from her stash of coins which she kept in a safe. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, buy the item in the grading service holder that you desire. As a veteran collector of 65+ years, I seldom have items graded. The last time...
It depends upon you want to have graded. NGC is the leading service for foreign and ancient coins. PCGS is the leading service for U.S. coins. ICG...
Here's a close up of the 1929 $2.50. It was graded "BU," and it really is BU about an MS-63 or 64. [ATTACH]
Sesquicentennial Coins? This is in low relief with the sitting president, Calvin Cooledge, on the obverse. He was still alive at the time, but...
The 1800 half cent has it's feet in the 18th and 19th centuries. The obverse was the "new" Draped Bust design. The half cent was the last of the...
This one is graded MS-61. You can like because it's bright and shiney, or you can hate it because it's white and was dipped successfully. [ATTACH]
This 1925-D is my type coin. It's graded MS-65. [ATTACH] I put this set together in the late 1980s. The coins are still all raw. I bought the...
They were all weak for one reason or another. For some reason, the people who were marketing them wanted the half dollar and the quarter eagle in...
There was an earlier commemoratives bubble, before the one in 1989. In the late 1970s and 1980, there was a big promotion for "collector coins."...
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