Very rarely.
Absolutely not ! I'd bet the value of a genuine example that is a fake.
The dealers you find listed here are to be trusted - http://www.cointalk.com/t14152/
Yeah, and even more times people steal pictures of other coins and use them in their ads. Guess we'll find out which happened.
Even if it is a Matte Proof, and I'm not so sure it is, I sure wouldn't buy it. The coin looks to have been harshly cleaned. Pass !
Finding dealers is not the problem - there are scads of them. What you have to find are dealers that you can trust. If you use the link that Mark...
That right there is the problem - looked like. That is the most common reason there is or ever was for people messing with their coins. They...
Or - they stole a picture from the Heritage archives and used it in their ebay ad. You did ask this seller if you would get the exact coin in the...
First of all yes, it is absolutely legal to own coin dies and it is of course legal to sell them. The only time this would even possibly be a...
Anyone have a trick to getting coins cheap off eBay? You bet, know enough about coins to know a bargain when you see one ;)
You got some catching up to do ;) I sold my entire collection and stopped collecting coins over 5 years ago.
sylvester ! Man I thought you fell off the planet :D It's good to see ya ! Hopefully you stop by more often ;) Maybe so Gary, but if people...
Precisely. It's not how many were made, it's how many exist now. The same principle applies with conditional rarity. There may be 3,211 of a given...
It would be a violation of forum rules for the OP to post his ebay name or to post links to some of his auctions, unless they are completed...
Simple answer - no. But if you look hard enough you can find a method described in this book or that article and another method described in some...
The NGC Coin Explorer can be found here - http://www.ngccoin.com/NGCCoinExplorer/default.aspx
One thing Frank - how does an over-mint mark create the depression/hit in the bottom half of the top mint mark ? The only thing that can do that...
WR - go to the Heritage web site, register for free, and look up realized prices in the auction archives. You'll quickly see the answers to your...
All you have to do is click on the HOME button ;)
This is a trap that way too many people fall into. They think that just because a coin has a low value that nobody would ever bother messing with...
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