I see an unmentioned mintmark. I can't grade gold well enough, especially from those photos, to see whether this coin falls into the range where...
Hey gbroke, seems like all your images are gbroken today... ?
BTW, BadThad, if you're reading this, I'd welcome advice on the best approach to using Verdi-Care (soak or swab?) on the 31-S, 10-S and 15-S...
Do you really -- really -- think you're as good (accurate and consistent) at grading as someone who has done it full-time, eight hours a day, for...
After quite a bit more searching, I turned up this one: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Had to stare pretty hard before I was sure that it was really a...
Next, interspersed with lots of nickels and IHCs, these two: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] They've both led a hard life, and that...
Continuing to pore over, analyze, and photograph last week's eBay "pig in a poke", this time focusing on the roll or so of wheat cents it promised...
That looks like well under half melt. Amazing. That reminds me of a guy at a coin show who said "I know it's a low price, but I'm still making...
The consensus here seems to be that Littleton grades coins fairly, or even conservatively, but sells them at very high markups.
Sure, you can make 100% isopropanol or ethanol -- just not by simple distillation. And if you leave either one sitting open, it'll absorb water...
Until recently, credit card companies explicitly prohibited that. One of my biggest objections to the whole CC scheme, even though it worked to my...
How about the St. Gaudens double eagle, with the mint mark ABOVE the date on the obverse, and the designer's monogram masquerading as a mint mark...
I don't see any of the danger signs from that coin on this one, although I can't imagine anyone actually claiming to authenticate a trade dollar...
I'd buy discolored Morgans at 18.5x face all day long. And as for trade dollars at melt, well... :)
If I were the US Mint, I would go around terrorizing the populace, because OMG WALKING TALKING BUILDING! Sorry, guess Friday isn't out of my...
As I understand it, the discount on war nickels is because the refiners themselves won't pay as much for it. It's more expensive to refine that...
Last time I saw prices posted for them at a coin show, buy prices for war nickels were something like 60-65% of spot. (90% silver was getting...
Hey, wasn't someone saying that the market for Norfeds was collapsing? :devil:
Before you speculate, remember, everybody, it's a family forum. :devil:
The pics are a bit small, but it looks harshly cleaned...?
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