Improperly spaced lettered edge rare on the Presidential??? I considered it to be common enough to not be considered an error.
The Sheldon book is very good, but if you decide to buy a copy DO NOT buy the 1990 edition (either first or second printing) The plates in it are...
How did it make it into a slab? If you will notice it is in a genuine slab, not a graded slab. The coin is genuine with PMD but since it is...
What I think is interesting is that davidh's non-proof and robec's proof are from the same reverse die. So is the one shown on the diagnostics...
Nope. On the WAM the M is evenly spaced between the A and the E. Even in these blurry pictures it is clear that it is noticably closer to the A.
I had a 1938 proof set disappear for about six years once, then one day there it was again sitting there on the shelf. On the other hand I've...
You folks are missing the original question. The question, paraphrased, is can a law be passed requiring vendors to accept a coin or mass of...
In order for the ebay protection to be in force the package has to be sent with delivery confirmation if the value is less than $250, or signature...
For you and me I don't think they will. For a large bulk submitter offering them extra money to do so, sure they will. Special labels, pieces...
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Don't forget PCGS saying they would NEVER put a problem coin in a PCGS slab. I think "never" in the TPG dictionary means "Something that will not...
It is expensive because it is historic and there are only about a half dozen known. I don't think the number on the coin has much effect on the...
In the slab it's a 30, out of the slab it's a 15. It may be recolored, (I didn't pay any attention to the color) but no way does it have XF...
NGC's report was in May, the coins were discovered and Coin World announced it in April.
Only about a half dozen of them are known. One of them turned up back in 1980 in a batch of junk silver being sold for scrap. It is believe...
I think the 56 might be a proof, I didn't think the 58 was but the more I look at it the more I'm not sure. Photographs of brilliant proofs if...
Most white metal pieces I see do have some degree of oxidation.
Should be interesting. Last time I went to the ANA in Chicago they had the finest possible PCGS Morgan and Peace dollar collections. PCGS had...
Hard to say but probably some alloy of tin and zinc. Possibly some traces of other metals such as lead or nickel if they wanted a little more...
But Burdette turned up paperwork that show that some of them WERE transferred to the Cash window. We aren't talking an assay box or something...
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