Has this coin been slabbed? And if so was it by PCGS? Because what I am seeing looks a lot like the "rubber" gasket wrapping over the rim of the...
The die wasn't completely filled with grease, that is why the details partially show. The linear pattern is from roller marks on the original...
No, there were 19 different obv dies used, and 20 rev dies. Dies were not always changed in pairs and if one die failed it was just replaced with...
In my opinion, No. The rattlers, being the first slabs from PCGS, were often said to have been graded more conservatively than todays grading....
Actually the NGC edgeview holders date back to 2002, but they never really did anything with them. They revived them in 2007 for use with the...
Very true, they have also publicly denied it.
Gets rid of all those distracting bumps and letters too.
I don't believe Dansco makes an album that holds the entire US type set. Whitman used to and that is the one that I started with. Still need 11...
Now to try and actually answer his first question. It is possible that the choice to use that orientation may have been deliberate simply to...
What makes them Red? The Red happens to be the natural color of copper. As it reacts with other chemicals it forms compounds that result in the...
Why? In this case Detecto is absolutely correct. Really? What steel coins do you have a lot of experience using? What was it about them that...
Who says they are worth $750K? Got any sales records to back up that claim? What are they worth individually? How many people are there out...
Maybe not a Kindle, but tablet computers are becoming more and more common. They can hold your Redbook, wantlist, inventory, references, notes...
Yes they do. The real key is the edge though. the plating is thin but if you look at the edge of an unc steel cent you can see a color...
Sure it can. In fact it can hold an infinite amount of material, just not all at the same time. Put stuff in clock, take picture, run auction...
Perhaps he owns stock?
But once it is cataloged it will show as being there and no one will know it is missing unless someone specifically goes looking for it. That's...
Which is also a promissory note. Just issued by a bigger business.
Best thing is the Goldberg Auctions archives. Look for the Dan Holmes collections catalogs I, II, and IV. (Dan Holmes III was his Large Cent...
Bad, bad damage.
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