I am far from an expert in this area, but my immediate reaction was "cast copy" because of the surfaces. I know corrosion can do similar things,...
The trouble with $2 million coins is that they take up so much money. I could think of a long list of items I would rather have. $2 million...
I have two Claudius pieces. Someone else has already shown the first one, a Cistophorus. [ATTACH] Cistophorus (3 denarii) Claudius and...
You need to grade this coin by the obverse. The flatness on the resverse, which might lead you to say VF or EF, is due to the strike.
There are two local shops near me. I was at the first one today to buy a quarter ounce American Gold Eagle to complete I type set I started a few...
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Here is set of obverses. I don't think that I will be able to get a Julius Caesar coin with his portrait which was issued during his lifetime....
Here's mine. This is graded MS-65. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Looking at the Grey Sheet numbers, they run from $174 in EF-40 to $300 in MS-65. MS-64...
Unless you send in the slab label with the crack-out, it's one more coin in the population. That's why scarce coins, like the 1854-D Three Dollar...
A little change in the gears. This is very conservatively graded MS-62. I bought in the 1960s from a camera store in Rehoboth Beach Delaware. The...
I was thinking MS-65 or 66 when I first saw. It's unusual to find one that is as sharply struck as that one is.
[ATTACH] This 1897 Proof cent is graded PR-66, Brown. Something like this will be very stable given proper storeage.
This the reason why I don’t like red copper. I refuse to buy old red copper, which is not a great sacrifice since the stuff is usually very...
You really need to know what you are doing with the crack-out game. I would never buy something with the assumption that I would get a grade like...
When I was dealer, they were generally available. The trick was to find nice ones. There were not a lot of those among the hoard. So far as...
I have heard that a large number of these pieces were tossed in the sea in Charleston, South Carolina and fished out later. That explains who most...
This CWT die combination is Patriotic numbers 54/179. It is an R-2 which equals "Not so common." That means that there are a few thousand known....
First Proof Jefferson Nickel. [ATTACH] The Jefferson Nickel and Feliz Schlag conceived it. The mint made so many changes that it is hardly...
I wish I had kept this 1865 Nickel Three Cent piece with the neat clash marks. [ATTACH]
Here is the New York Sanitary Fair token. My piece is worn, which is unusual. Most of the survivors seemto be Mint State. I paid about $800 for...
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