There's a per-auction cap on final value fees, but not per-quarter. Otherwise eBay would lose their shirts with high-volume sellers. The cap used...
I can't see any sign of recessed dates with confidence in the coins you show, except that 27 you mentioned.
It's easy to distinguish Type 1 coins by the position of the eagle on the reverse, even if they're worn almost flat. (No stars under the eagle for...
Hmm. I'm supposed to be heading up that way periodically to visit Dad; I'm sure he'd understand if I went missing half a day to do some high-level...
Okay, here's another hint: there are some other things in front of it in the photo. Roofs, for example.
I believe you'll find the the "E" in CENT was altered to resemble another letter. People got a kick out of naughty words even in the 1800s.
Sorry, I haven't quite got the hang of cropping. [IMG]
Provident is a "reputable dealer" in the sense that you will receive a genuine gold half-eagle. But there's no guarantee on eye appeal, and I have...
In the bottom photo, light is shining from the left, along the length of the features you mention; in the top photo, it's shining from the top,...
"slightly weakly struck" :hilarious: To produce a train-wreck like that, I can imagine almost anything. Two obverse dies, a planchet stuck in a...
Okay, now I know how to answer the question. Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugliness goes all the way to the reactive-metal core -- and straight...
I've been trying to find a way to say something like this. Yes, it's a fact that people -- especially straight men, but not only straight men --...
Okay, that made me do a double-take -- with my background, I'm more familiar with a different NERVA.
I'm insanely jealous of Arabic calligraphy. The psychedelic poster lettering of the 1960s just isn't the same.
Sounds like you've found an exploitable market inefficiency. If the buying power in the room can be sucked up by less than $30K of "near melt"...
I saw someone listing rolls of quarters last night on eBay for something like $136 (13.6x when melt was ~13.08) shipped. They were going fast.
How many years of education do you want to require before people are allowed to buy and sell coins?
Remember, registered mail takes longer, too.
Just realized that it shipped REGISTERED. I approve; the monetary value isn't huge, but I can't just order a replacement for that reeded-edge token...
There's got to be some tension, though, between overselling and underselling the coin. My natural tendency is to take analytical photos, trying...
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