Those are pretty much the worst places to buy coins. Your best bet is to establish a relationship with a good dealer. There are many to pick from,...
If you can post a picture of the coin, both sides, I can give an approximate value. But I can do nothing without a picture.
Only way to answer that would be if you posted a few pics of the coins.
As I said, the bulbous serifs are the determining factor - http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page29.html
That is correct. Example - a coin in a regular NGC slab is submitted for grade review because of what looks like a problem of some sort. NGC may...
If a coin is conserved by NCS and then sent to NGC for slabbing and NGC slabs it - there is no designation on that slab that says that the coin...
Then you must not consider realized auction prices as retail prices because according to realized prices, the PCGS guide is about 30% too high on...
Cobs, Pieces Of Eight and Treasure Coins by Sewall Menzel - and that is not the design used on the 8 reales of the time. As for why someone...
Looks like one to me, the bulbous serifs are what denote the '81 type 2.
It doesn't much matter since the prices listed in the PCGS price guide are worthless.
You bought the sets last year and sealed them up. But what about 8 to 10 years before you had them ? The coins are toning - that's all.
Is that a scratch or a die crack at the bottom edge of the shoulder ?
No idea ! Best I can guess is it was a glitch in the software of some kind. Either way, the thread is open now.
It's not really a question of how common it is, it's more the perception of it being common. For example, if you really checked you'd almost...
Well there's 3 ways to make a die. 1 - you have somebody else do it for you. 2 - you carve it by hand. 3 - you use a combination of carving and...
As a general rule pop-top moderns were bringing higher prices in '04 than they do today - even without an increase in population. Why ? Because I...
What they don't cover is cash shipped via mail. And some choose to interpret that to mean coins because coins are money. But - they will cover...
There are many good dealers who have web sites, but it depends on the price range for coins you are looking for as to whether or not you will find...
It's not a double tournois, it's a denier tournois. A double is a silver coin, the denier is copper and a fractional denomination of the tournois,...
100% true ! And it cannot be nor will it ever be any other way because no 2 coins, even if they are graded by the same company at the same grade...
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