VP is NGC's own in-house variety attribution system.
Check all the way around the edge. Usually the silver versions will be marked somewhere, often on the edge.
Yes people do counterfeit the chips, that's why they change them on a regular basis and the old chips become void. As to the "hand over fist",...
I want one too. I know a firm in the UK that makes nice ones but in the past he has refused to ship overseas. A check on his website though no...
Well it isn't a crude amateur repair but it isn't a quality repair either. There are people out there who can repair that hole almost undetectably.
Well I checked Cobwright and I can see why it is going so high. Before Cobwright the only reference on these was Atkin's Work on Eighteenth...
Well true they did increase it $5, but they also increased the number of coins in the set by eight coins.
Probably because international flights are longer and people tend to get up and down more often, stretching their legs, going to the restroom...
Crusty, I've only looked at the first one, the 1877 and even with the blurry photo you can tell that the obv is a type II hub that wasn't used...
I'm betting what he has is a coin that has had a LONG soak in a weak acid such as vinegar. Wheelgun, is the copper layer on the edge recessed in...
The 1873-S standard dollar WAS produced. Harry X Boosell located the inventory listing for the coins sent to the annual Trial of the Pyx that...
It really looks like a flip over double strike. Notice the sharp clear raised and not reversed olive branch from the reverse on the back of...
I agree struck from clashed dies, but I would also agree that I believe it is quite possibly fake.
Got just one lot, Naftzger sale Lot 737 1846 N-18, 6th finest known (Grellman census) 3rd finest known (Noyes Census)
The Artist Infusion Program, where they "bring in new talent" has been going on for at least four to six year now with artists rotating into and...
On one of the lots I bid on I bid six times the estimate and still lost it. I was really hoping to get something out of this collection. There...
And his late dates (Braided hair) in early 2010. Shawn is a good guy but I'm kinda ticked off at him right now. He out bid me in the Dan Holmes...
About 36 feet at home, 10 or 12 storage boxes in the back apartment, access to another 20 feet over at my fathers house, and four storage boxes...
Another reason for the CC mystique is because before 1963 they WERE all very scarce to rare coins, especially in better condition. Why? Because...
Another reason is the population distrbution. Although there are a lot of people in California, the bulk of the countries population still lives...
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