Because that was their margin. The coins were selling as jewellery by weight - 22kt. The ones I have were just under 17kt. So a mix of 14kt and...
Take your time. Walk around and see who is selling the same type of material. Get a couple offers. Especially if you are looking at less common...
Be aware that they are very, very commonly counterfeit and have been for a long time for the jewelry trade. I have two that were bought on 47th...
Barber dimes were minted from 1892 to 1916. You have a 1910 which has suffered the slings and arrows of actually being used as a dime. Which was...
Probably still a reholder messy, just no leading zero. It would be interesting to crowd source this, but we would need to base it on primary...
You can do it roughly by the #s. PCGS seems to be sequential. NGS uses blocks of numbers for different sources - paper forms, internet fillable...
A clad quarter weighs 5.67g - https://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index583f.html?action=coin_specifications Even if the copper layer is...
Don't forget the one of a kind label with the green box and the unique green ring. I doubt very highly that HSN did anything beyond order a...
DO NOT SCRAPE VALUABLE COINS. Weigh them. The proper weights for a clad and silver planchet are easy to find and that's a definitive test. Yes,...
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I would say their reputation hasn't improved, but I would say it hasn't deteriorated further.
1872 3 cent silver, which I posted GTG a month back. GTG 1872 Trime (3 cent silver) I dug out my microscope to take a shot of the rims looking...
Or maybe a colored border with a white background for the printing?
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Actually, no, it's PSD and it's in your head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
You can dig here: https://patents.google.com/?q=knuckle&q=joint&q=press although I don't know what you will find.
ACG was a perfectly reputable slabbing company at the start. In fact, the 1st patent for a coin slab is the ACG photoslab. However, they were...
I wouldn't say EASY, but you can see the blob of the 6 and the flat top of the 7. Weight would have excluded 1977 and this was probably slabbed...
Go ahead... I posted the backs of my various Iowa labels at that other site in reply to your message, here they are again Dot matrix 60xxxE2...
If you use envelopes that don't meet the "machinable" standards of height vs. width and thickness, they don't go through the high speed...
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