ROM's product has improved in quality. That is a much better reproduction than their early attempts.
G-5 has been used in the copper community for about 58 years now. As have G-6, VG-7, VF 25, & VF 35. On rare occaisions we may even use some of...
They did decide that the design format will be the same on each coin and I believe they decided to go with the form shown on the James Madison...
To the best of my knowledge, none have ever been found in the rolls the mint sold.
They way the legislation is written there is the possibility of as many as 20 possibly even 28 different varieties of cent in 2009. Since it...
If you really want an 1883/2 nickel you either need to know what the different varieties look like or only buy coins from the top services. A...
The coin is way overweight. An 1868 half dollar should weigh 12.44 grams with a tolerance of +/- .097 grams. So it is overweight by almost 7...
Slabbed may not help. Grading standards, at least for key dates, have been slipping. I have seen 01-S quarters and 16-D dimes with the rim down...
Charlie32 is correct, PCGS began using the blue labels in November of 1998. The first blue label slabs had the barcode on the back and they diid...
They don't have a choice, by law they would have to. Hobby Protection Act of 1973.
One, they are big. People tend to prefer big coins to small coins. Two they are silver. Silver is the most refeltive of all metals so the...
While we may talk a lot about the crooks out there in the coin field, in reality they are actually a tiny minority of the coin collector community.
That should tell you something about the overhead that these TV programs have. Even selling the coins and such at two to three times retail,...
As The Cave Troll said, there are four obv dies for this issue but I don't believe any of them had the mintmark that high. With the larger...
This style of Sample slab (PCGS 4S2 in my cataloging system) can also be found with circulated Morgan dollars in the holder. (Cameron probably...
Why? It would only be a problem if you are paying your employees in cash under the table. And even then it wouldn't be a problem because you...
So how about an update? Were the coins found?
I could answer but I'll let some other have first shot at it. After all, you did say the question was for ALL of us. :)
Yes a true Unc Steel cent will quite often have a slight blueish tint to it. It is caused by a thin layer of zinc oxide which has a bluegray color...
No, they get booted if their overall feedback rating drops to -3.
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