Let's have a close, close look at both sides of those 1916 and 1917 nickels. And the 1912, for that matter!
I think I may see the top of a mint mark. I'd be soaking it in vinegar, both faces, so (a) the mint mark would be restored if present and (b) the...
I feel like I have vague memories of Mom and my brother talking about what to do with Mom's silver certificates. I would've been 4 or 5, so the...
Couldn't have happened to a nicer industry.
And so you're asking on the...? ;)
I don't remember any discussion here of recent changes at Hugh Wood. What's happened? When I was actively buying and selling on eBay, I...
Not sure what you're asking here. Is it unusual to find a proof in circulation? Kinda, but not that unusual. Is it unusual to find an S-mint...
Nope, I was a kid paying close attention at the time. :) When SF started striking coins with the S mint-mark again in 1968, only cents and nickels...
Looks like square rims and mirror fields to me. I also don't see bag marks. Compare a couple of full-step regular strike examples from PCGS. I...
When I was first collecting, I think the Red Book listed XF, AU, BU, Choice BU, and Proof. (I guess that was one source of the "proof is a better...
Well, yeah, but -- you're starting with a 5% solution of acetic acid and a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide, so it's pretty dilute. Wikipedia says...
That's my go-to solution as well. It's slower than vinegar-and-peroxide, but that's a GOOD thing -- it's easier to avoid letting things go too far.
I asked the same thing in another thread. The answer made sense, at least as much sense as the entire bean-chase subgenre. I'm still guessing a...
Adding 30 "points" of range to the Sheldon scale, and then just establishing a one-to-one correspondence between assignable grades in the old...
Well, that seems... yeah, what you already said. Maybe they realized that the math to map 10-point-scale grades into the registry rankings would...
I know the 28-P has fallen out of favor in recent years, but man, that one's a beauty! I expect there'd be quite a fight over it if it ever goes...
Yeah, wouldn't that wreak havoc in the lowball registry competition? My collection certainly has a lot more coins in the "1.5 range" than the "9+...
Good news: you're only missing one year. There aren't any US quarters dated 1975 -- all the ones struck in 1975 had the Bicentennial design, and...
Do you have any reason to think that an X 10 is harder to get than a Sheldon 70? Besides the small numbers of X-slabbed coins in general? I can...
It might be a strike-through, or it might be some form of damage. Either way, I'm pretty sure it detracts rather than adding value. I've returned...
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