The stripes are there on the shield. I have to say it does look "hinky" to me. I thought the date style was wrong but I looked at some others...
The acid attacks the whole surface fairly evenly so the details remain visible even as it gets thinner and thinner. it does get smaller in...
I would also recommend copies of the Dan Holmes I and Dan Holmes II catalogs. They are not expensive (Less than the books will cost) and you...
Actually not too long ago I picked up the 1949 first edition Early American Cents by Sheldon for $20. That was a steal, even 6 or 7 years ago....
Looks real, looks probably improperly cleaned at some time, would not make the condition census. I don't think it would make five figures but...
"Junk" silver simply means that the value of the coin is just the value of the silver that is in it. no premium value above melt. As mentioned...
I'm surprised people are grading it so low. The pictures aren't the best but blow them up and there is a lot of detail left yet on the obverse...
Maybe he's Chinese and it's too hard for him to add his chop when it is in the slab.
I'm surprised no one even mentioned the rotated die.
Just based on attractiveness TO ME, I would go with the half dollar. I like that color on circulated silver. The Trade dollar is rather splotchy...
And if all else fails.......send it to the smelter, he'll get it off.
But can you actually buy them at that price?
Copper plated first then the edge is upset.
The slab label, if it can be believed, indicates that the second strike was a broadstrike without the collar. Personally I agree with igrade, it...
Don't know the variety, would want better pictures, but it is an 1802.
And that $13 to $15 for BU rolls is the retail price not the wholesale price you would want to pay for them.
It's a nice story, and the part about the plating of the nickels to pass them as half eagles is true, but the part about Josh Tatum is not. There...
Yes, the Civil War. The war caused all the prescious metal coinage to either be melted, exported, or hoarded so why produce a lot of coins that...
I'm fairly sure that is a copy of Ding. The copies of Coole that I have seen had his name in english on them. If I had my copy of Fisher-Ding...
There were between 29 and 36 of the gold ones made, 12 were flown on the Sally Ride Shuttle mission, first woman astronaut, they were displayed...
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