I get blown out of the water regularly in Heritage auctions, even when I bid full retail or even well above the previous auction results. I don't...
Not THAT rare ... just expensive. Next to the cut-out Gobrecht eagle from a dollar that I saw on-line years ago, the worst Gobrecht Dollar I...
You are free to collect whatever you like, but I've found that I get more out of what I have if there is a rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes I get...
That wooden medal was from a set. Here is a complete one. [ATTACH] My box is in bad shape. My grandmother had a really nice one, but I didn't...
Here is Christian Gobrecht's original design with No Stars on the Obverse. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here is one from some years later. Robert...
Yes, the $1,500 price was listed in the 16th edition of "The Red Book." The book is dated 1963 on the cover, but it was introduced in the spring...
The GSA had dollars that had been in circulation and had seen a lot of use, and they had dollars in mint sealed bags that had not seen the light...
The GSA holders without "Uncirculated" on them sometimes made the coins harder to sell. Hence you heard the cracking sound. Also albums were a lot...
From what I have understood, these GSA dollars were graded by some college students the GSA hired. They gave them a quickee course in grading and...
Yes, these toned coin bring more money than they should, and they encourage coin doctors to ruin coins that were okay before they started messing...
Links don't pose a problem if they are some place like Great Collections or eBay. The trouble can start when the link is to somewhere that is...
Given the fact that the "We" is weak, I would give it a VF-30, but that's the old grade before "grade-flation" took over. I sold several of these...
When you have the chance, you should down load a picture and post it here so that everyone can see the counterfeit before it gets taken down on...
I have been a collector for over 60 years. At first, I didn’t care for certified coins, but now it’s about all I buy for U.S. coins. I still...
From what I have read, Augustus got better with age. One might say the same thing about Brady. Here is my Augustus coin, a denarius. The charging...
I am probably wrong, but if it is 25 pence, that is about 32 cents in U.S. money. When I took a trip to England years ago, a pound didn’t buy much...
Demonitized with a collector value of about $3. It has no melt value. In conversations with a London coin dealer, he told me they almost never...
I have heard that the Chinese can legally counterfeit anything that was minted before 1948. That dates from their revolution. The coins after that...
Yes, Whitman calls that series “Red Books,” which is confusing. I guess it’s a marketing thing. I generally buy one edition of those books and...
It is an 1804 half eagle. As such, it is not worth anything close to $100,000. It’s probably at the low end of 5 figures. It’s a nice coin, but...
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