Thar she blows! Congrats!
This was a DNW auction. It seems like their estimates tend to be close, but not in this case.
£750 hammer. £930 including the juice and VAT on the juice, £1080 if you were buying inside the EU and had to pay VAT on the hammer as well....
1568 Elizabeth I Threepence. I was thinking there was no way the estimate was right on this one. I was right. [ATTACH]
Once in a while, I spot something in an auction that, while not at the core of my collection, is something that I decide is assuredly a cool coin...
Woot! Now I can get my 1792 Half Disme struck on nail! Heck, why stop there? William the Conqueror Penny... nay... Eid Mar Denarius struck on a...
It looks like he actually got the alignment of the dies right.
Wow, that slab is trashed. Try VAM 35 or 39. Smear some oil on the slab to fill in the scratches for easier viewing.
Care to hear about my Classic Commem type set?
On VAMWorld, you'd be asked to poke it with a stick.
Now that it's free, I find myself using PCGS CoinFacts more and more. It shows their retail pricing alongside auction prices. If I'm looking at...
The color of the half is a little flat looking, but I still like it more than the cent. A 14-D Lincoln in VG is probably more common.
Pretty decent looking coin. 63-64, I guess.
For $100-200, I don't think you'll particularly like a proof coin you pick up as much as a business strike. It looks like MS64RB, MS64RD, or even...
Nice looking sets!
Run, Forrest! Run!
This is correct. The new PCGS slabs, for example, are significantly lighter than the older ones, even though they seem bulkier. Even if you had...
The weight bugs me more than anything else. One possibility is that this is a GMM reproduction that has been worked to obscure the COPY stamp and...
No 66s in that batch. You might get a 65RD on the 66, the 63-D looks 63RD, the others 64RD.
These are quite impressive on many fronts. Nice, hefty 2 oz. feel. Well-executed, high relief design. I imagine they'll be pretty cool once...
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