Most love tokens are made on dimes. A love token on anything else, all things being equal, is worth more. The quality of the engraving is also...
To my knowledge, the only dateless Standing Liberty Quarters that can be dated are the key date 1916 and the 1917 Type 1. There were subtle...
Proof coins can most certainly have die polish lines. Years ago I sold an 1858 Silver Three Cent Piece that was in a PCGS PR-66 holder. The coin...
This one of the best Proof Walking Liberty Half Dollars that I have seen. It is in an NGC PR-67 holder. The coin has never been dipped, and it's...
No, I used to watch dealers do it with cold water. Dissolving it was not required.
Sorry, but it has been cleaned at some point. It's got the fine scratches that tell me it's been gone over with something like baking soda back in...
I might add that this stuff is very scary. Back when I was collecting these coins in '80s, I would have been fooled.
I don't like numbers 1, 3 and 5. There is something wrong with the reverse lettering in #1 unless it's the photo. Number 3 has a coat of the usual...
Yes, the 1880 is quite the coin. I paid a premium for that one in a Heritage auction. It looks better in person than it does in that photo. It's...
No coin that the U.S. mint produced in 1832 shines like that. Even the extremely rare Proof coins that the mint made would not look like that. The...
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t found any bargains in the auctions during the pandemic. It seems like the more affluent collectors are stuck...
I am debating between AU-58 and Unc. The color is definitely brown. That’s all I know for sure.
1867 is a much tougher date. The pieces from 1880s had low mintages, and many of them are Proof-Likes. Dealers and speculators saved many of them,...
The short set concept has long been a staple for Mercury Dime and Walking Liberty Half Dollar collectors. For Mercury Dimes the short set can...
If you were an slave in Delaware or Maryland, for example, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free you because those states were still in the...
My first impression was “bad.” No luster, lots of detail but overall funky look. You have mess around a lot to make a higher grade, genuine coin...
This is what happens to many good NGC coins. They get cracked out and sent to PCGS. The NGC mistakes stay in NGC holders which makes the quality...
The issue has to do with the luster. In the minds of the graders, luster trumps marks. I have seen this many times.
Good point. I have had very little to do with the platinum coins, so that was, at most in the back of my mind.
Yes, these guys sell genuine coins, but many of them have been played with. Their photographs sometimes have “artful renderings” too.
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