Definitely not N-4, I'm actually leaning towards N-18 or N-(41). I rejected N-5 because the 1 below the point of the bust isn't low enough. The...
Keep pouting because it's still not a proof. I do think it's a good deal for $50.
The original coin is a strike through. It's been struck through "grease".
That was back in 1999 and it was reported in Coin World as well as the regular news. They were rolls of 1999 quarters with the eagle reverse. I...
I agree. I probably would have responded "Don't worry, if the US is located somewhere in the world, I will ship there too."
If you are talking about MS coins I would agree with you, but I think they tend to do a pretty good job with coins graded AU or lower, especially...
The title does violate ebay listing rules. Very poor quality pictures. The pictures would make me either avoid the auction or low ball it....
The increase in weight from plating, whether with silver, gold, mercury, nickel, zinc etc will be so slight as to not be noticeable unless you...
He isn't buying from another country. The OP lives in the same country the seller is in.
A nickel plating will result in the coins being attracted to a magnet, but the attraction will be weak. If they are really struck on steel...
That's PMD. There is a form of error that results in a fold of metal from the edge being struck into the coin but this isn't it. (If the...
One of the distributors had his sets packaged as Genuine by PCGS, and a lot of them have been slabbed by PCGS and NGC, but that is the packaging...
Let me know when it finishes turning brown.
I think it is quite nice. A couple of light spots maybe, but a clouded appearance? Most of these thing have that ugly blue haze over the whole...
Originally ANACS did mean American Numismatic Association Certification Service, and it was owned by the ANA. But the ANA sold the company to...
I'd start with an extended soak in distilled water. If that didn't work, then I would move on to a soak in acetone. (Except for steel cents,...
Yes, die breaks will usually command a premium. Die cracks on the other hand usually will not.
Have you ever really looked closely at the PCGS slab? On a great many coin the clear "rubber" insert wraps over the rim and obscures MOST of it....
Except the refiners have customers that need or want 999 fine bars and the coins are readily available scrap stock. I think you will find that a...
Maybe a quarter and that's full retail. It would be common to find a coin like this in poundage, that's a bulk lot of mixed foreign coins that...
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