No guarantees from the small images but I do think it looks polished, especially the image of the reverse.
No the strawberries are genuine mint products. They have been punch linked to other varieties and the edge dies used are also identical to those...
And if it hadn't come from NCS but instead had been directly submitted looking like that it would have been detail graded for either environmental...
Only advantages would be possibly lower shipping cost because there would be more coins in the package to split the cost between. Of course on...
And to a LOT of people an SVDB cent is only something to be used to help pay the sales tax on a purchase. A 16-D dime can be sold for scrap to a...
I have paid over $100 for contemporary counterfeit Conder halfpenny tokens. Machins Mills produced counterfeit British half pennies and those can...
Small correction to what Doug had to say. ANACS started authenticating in 1972 not grading. Grading did not begin until 1979. And they were not...
Post office. It can be insured, and if you want maximum safety send it registered. FedEx does not insure coins. Also I don't believe PCGS slabs...
Back when PCGS and NGC first started wait times of 4 to 6 months were sometimes encountered. The all time record though was probably held by a...
Only the satin finish coins from the 2005 - 2010 sets will come back as SP.
They have only used those holders for special things like the First Day of Issue stuff and the only place you normally see them is on one or two...
I don't think it was an accidental hit. I think someone has been playing with it.
Somebody at the private company put the Lincoln sticker on the wrong coin. Another possibility is they were making up a set of President and...
In the 1840's there were a lot of counterfeit 8 reales in circulation in the south and west. The refiner of the New Orleans mint even wrote a...
Doug got here first but he is absolutely correct the market was going crazy back then. An example I like to use is the 1881-S Morgan dollar in...
Or buy this one so you will have one with a little character and not a clone of all of the other thousands of blast white ones out there. :)
True, but it was not unknown for pattern/proposal pieces struck in Europe. And that Massachusetts pine tree piece looks like higher quality...
Correct. And one other thing that has not been mentioned in all of these discussions. The issues of Continental paper currency through 1775...
Are the bucks going to expire? If not why not continue to acquire them until you can get something you WANT with them? I have to admit I don't...
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