All pricing guides are questionable. Some coins will sell at half what's shown and others will bring twice the price.
How to get a young person interested in coins? You might buy a bag of Lincolns and an album. Have them help you sort and fill the album. If they...
I agree with heat damage. If the damage was more in the center of the coin, I would think it was used in a fuse box.
Pretty coin. Tough to put a price on something like this. You never know how many folks are going to bid. All you can do is show good images and...
An old friend of mine called it base metal. I don't even know what that is.
That is really cool. Did it Cam?
That's cool. Silver?
I'm sure the coin had wide rims to begin with. I also think the dies used may have added a bit of width to the rims. There must have been over a...
Yes, these holders can create the look your coin has. The die smashes the rim of the coin. No they don't. The die alters the rim and the edge.
If we are talking a Lucky holder, the design is struck on the holder with the coin in place. This can create flat wide rims on the coin. Was this...
What are coin shops like in Europe? Do they actually have many US coins? Is there much of a collector base in other countries for US coins?
I don't see anything that makes me think the coin is a proof.
I think you do a great job of keeping it together. You handle the good news and the bad news well and have fun. A lot of new folks don't...
Is there some reason you don't want to show us the holder? Was it one of those lucky holders? That would explain why the rim looks like it does.
Nice coin.
Both are large date.
My first guess would be the NGC Coin Forum.
Spoofing Alert: Fake Email from an NGC Address It has come to our attention that many NGC members recently received an email purportedly from an...
I can't guess what it may bring at auction. I would not go over about $30 but that's me. I might give $36 if it was in a PCGS holder.
I would only pay what the normal coin would sell for. I don't feel the DDR adds any value.
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