You can tell from those pictures that it is polished but not whether it is authentic.
ANGS is a fly-by-night or self slabber and they first showed up about 6 to 8 months ago. Thanks for the tip though on the barcodes, I hadn't...
Third Party Grading/Certification Companies & Slab/Certificate Varieties published in 2003 and has been out of print for about 3 years. The book...
The silver eagle? It's a 1987. (Not my coin)
Even if you stamped them REPLICA you could not legaly sell them. By law they must be stamped COPY not replica. There are also legal requirements...
No it wouldn't. It has a die chip and is probably not worth more than a dollar or two if that much.
I'm not sure why Jazz isshowing us a railroad track. Apparently he doesnt know what a railroad rim partial collar coin looks like. [IMG] Note...
Coinfacts is out of date as well then as there are five stemless wreath varieties from two different reverse dies S-143 and NC-8 (R-5- and R-8+)...
That you John! Little notices like that about changes in the slabs makes my life a lot easier.
The 1798 is a B-13 R-2 The 1799 appears to be B-12 R-2
My opinion only Purchasing error. Actually what I think this is is a coin that missed the cleaning step after the planchets were annealed...
Can't say anything about the WE but the "rays" are the result of die wear. That is what the mint calls "starburst". It is caused by the outward...
Doubledie, I will take your post then as permission to use information from your site, properly creditied, in my book. I will try and get...
Yes they do havea collector following. Some are very crude and low value while others are very well done and have high values. With these it the...
The coin is real and bottle with the coin in it was worth a LOT more than the coins is. I have that book and have read it as well. I also...
That would depend on whether or not Lane wanted the news out. Personally I think it's great. I'm glad to see slabs and their history getting...
I'm impressed by the Coinauctions site, 88 companies. That's 6 more than I listed 5 years ago. I'm past the 150 company level. Still he does...
You have my comments on the Coin Community forum.
The Omega counterfeits were identified by ANACS in the mid 1970's long before there were TPGs. The Secret Service had nothing to do with it. And...
And I think that in about three years everyone will be hyping the National Parks quarters, all the new collectors will be chasing those, and the...
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