Yeah, when you say it's a first strike and you can't prove it you hve to pay $500,000 to the ANA. So who and how much do we have to pay when we...
First one is the result of a die chip, fairly common. The second is a strike through, interesting but not overly valuable. I'm not sure what if...
When you consider that the paper without the name on it is just the standard wrapping paper that String & Son makes for wrapping the dollar coin,...
Not to mention the typical reaction when something from one year goes way up, everyone runs to buy it the next year hoping for a repeat and...
The edge lettering was applied BEFORE striking, not afterward. The Bowers and Merena coin and the Coinfacts B-14 both show both spikes on stars...
Franklin Mint has not struck coins for other countries, including Liberia, since 1985. Most Liberian coins are struck by the Pobjoy Mint now I...
I want a weight.
I'm with Hobo, when I ran the cash register at the resturant I worked at I always counted the change up to the next dollar, then dolars by ones...
29 bids but only 8 bidders and once it got above $150 only 2 bidders. One of which is placing max bids in large steps and the other is then doing...
I don't ever have that problem. I don't buy slabbed coins.
From looking at the bidding pattern it's either newbies or shill bidding.
I glad to hear that you plan to continue. I think in the long run you will find that you made the right decision. I'd like to comment on one...
If the roll is an original bank roll with the Thomas Jefferson name on the side, or if it is a roll that the mint sold directly, and you send the...
The Yen used to have subunits, but over the years as the value of the yen fell the smaller units were discontinued as they became too small to be...
Well back in the 50's and 60's it was an easy way to turn 80 cents worth of silver into an easily sold item that would bring 60 to 70 dollars. In...
That's because the value on nickel has gone DOWN. It wasn't that long ago the metal value of the five cent piece was close to 10 cents apiece.
Think "closed 3" As in 1873 closed 3. They had to change the font of the 3 because it looked like an 8
Yep. 2 grams light, got to be a missing clad layer.
I'm very impressed with the S-97 cent. 1796 draped busts are very tough. As you say an R-3 which is just about as common as they get. I think...
I'll take the VW.
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