It's amazing what one can learn sometimes if one takes the time to read the dry and often boring internal reports & audits issued by the Treasury....
Absolutely. If a coin has PVC contamination for example - it must be removed. But the removal needs to be done in a way that will not harm the...
Hmmmmm - I don't think there is anybody more vocal on this board, and most others, than I am. And yet I have not owned a single coin in over 4...
I thought everybody knew this. The proper way to crack out a coin is you first find some guy you secretly dislike. He holds the slab, upright, on...
If a coin is worn enough, or damaged in such a way that a bank feels it should be removed from circulation then those coins are returned to the...
Looks like roll friction to me - and I'd say it was there when slabbed - but ignored.
I wouldn't call it die crumbling at all, and it's an entirely different look than the other coin I argued about. This one I would say those are...
There is a huge difference between something that is secret and something that most simply don't know. Of course it's not a secret. If you read...
Glad it did - it confirms what I have always said - that premiums on toned coins did not start until around 2002. That was just the beginning of...
No idea as I have not been trying to keep track of them in regard to quality of strike. Something worth mentioning though - you have been claiming...
You said - "One of these days I'm going to blow the lid off of taping & flowing in the dry wall business." So - are you an ex-sheetrocker ?
Rule of thumb - PCGS will only list varieties that are in the Red Book. NGC does a few more, but not many.
OK - but how do you sort out all of the idiots on ebay who pay way more than the coin is worth ? And don't even try to tell me that any coin...
In 2008 those on Heritage ranged from $4000 to $7500. In 2010 they ranged from $3200 to $4600. Seems like quite a reduction to me....
Just about any place you want. Now you personally may not define the prices as low, but they are without a doubt lower than they were 2 years ago....
Sorry to hear that, thanks for telling us Roy. I shall miss Brad.
You can read about the Goodacre coins here - http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page24.html - and there are 2 different types.
The same thing that happened to all those things you've always asked me not to tell anyone else ;)
Even if I could - I would not repeat it since it is supposed to be confidential.
It's a modern reproduction comonly sold to tourists in the Caribbean.
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