Here is my example. [ATTACH] It is believed that this was the first set of dime dies that were used in 1796. There are six 1796 dime die...
I do have something dated 1826, a half cent. It is the piece in my NGC registry set, but it's not my best example of the Classic Head half cent...
Some “colonial coins” (Many of them were issued in the mid 1780s during the Confederation Congress.) are hard to find in high or even nice grades,...
People, who know what they are doing, are not beating down the fences to buy badly corroded copper. Here are the photos of the piece I had 20...
I am going to brutally honest about this Kentucky token. I think that it is probably genuine, but it looks like a ground salvage piece that was...
Years ago I belonged to a local club where the treasurer was selling counterfeit gold dollars to the president of the club at retail prices. These...
I had a Kentucky token in PCGS graded Mint State when I was a dealer and was barely able to sell it in the $1,000 range. It all depends on what...
There are three CWT varieties that have that obverse, #36, if I recall correctly. That is the most common of the three. They were great sellers...
Given what a VF looks like these days, $200 sounds about right I sold this one over 20 years ago when I was dealer. If you held it at certain...
It's harder to grade original, undipped pieces. The first set of photos made it look very dull. I was thinking EF. Then second shows luster in the...
The 1965 sets have to be the worst. I would challenge many experts to pick out many of those coins, once they are out of mint holder. The 1966 and...
Here is a real one, which is PCGS certified. It came from a well known London dealer. [ATTACH]
These two Silver Inaugural medals are exactly a century a part. I bought them in the same auction without realizing it. One is "very rare." The...
Something very old. [ATTACH] Some different for the March of Dimes which was started in part by FDR. [ATTACH]
I would need larger, high resolution photos to call something MS-67.
It's weakly struck. I would almost said counterfeit except it's not worth the Chinese while to copy it.
The voting period seems to have been shut down. I would have said MS-66. It's a really nice example with great toning.
Here is a Mint State piece, just to show you all of the detail for the type. This one is graded MS-62. [ATTACH]
Back in the day, the Brown and Dunn grading system (A grading guide from the 1960s which is where I started to learn to grade.) said that this is...
Yes, the market for these has left me in the dust. The design in interesting, but not THAT interesting.
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