A little too high is one thing. I too will pay a premium for coins I like, especially now that I am old and not worried too much about reselling...
As a frequent attendee at the major coin shows, you get to know that some dealers always overcharge. I don’t know how they stay in business, but...
Let’s hope it’s enough planchets to avoid creating an end of the series rarity. All we need is another mint run lottery, like the privy mark...
The merchants will supply them, given the mark+up.
Unfortunately, yes. The end of the cent will terminate a date series that has run from 1793 to date, with the exception of 1815.
I’m sure the treasury will retire them when the get the chance, as they do with all worn out and obsolete coinage.
Bret Bear reported it tonight on Fox.
One could buy an old Red Book and look it up. A 1795 silver dollar was worth $25 in 1948, or so. When I was a kid collector in the 1960s they were...
One should be able to smell a rat when the coin in question is worth 400 times the asking price. Yes, the crooks suck, but buyers need to do some...
I want both, and I am willing to wait and pay them. Early on I considered purchasing a denarius of the emperor Vitellius (ruled for three months...
Probably some sort of a crude bezel. Why would anyone buy it? The nice ones are “dirt common.” Many years ago I spotted a silver quarter that...
Well that might be rare in that holder. Few people would waste their money on getting an item like that into a PCGS slab. To date 26 have been...
They frequently seem to be on eBay. It seems that just about every counterfeit piece of junk attracts one or more bidders’ attention.
Adding to the above, even if we knew how many dies were shipped, we don’t know if they were used. For example, Three Dollar Gold Piece dies were...
So far as we know, there was one obverse die. There might be records which show how many dies San Francisco received from Philadelphia or how many...
Neither do I. These photos show the test I conducted on it.
Cornucopia is a small one day show that is held near Tampa, Florida on the first Saturday of every month. I have been to it twice. I don’t recall...
A hearsay verbal opinion from ICG is worth the paper it’s written upon. ICG slabbing is cheap enough that any claim as to why the item wasn’t...
The 1893-S “dollar” in the OP is not good. The position the “1” in the date is not in the right spot relative to the dentles. A second marker is a...
Counterfeit. Run away. It looks like a silver round.
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