I was surfing the net looking for a red enamel Al Smith donkey pin when I happened upon this site. For those who would like to know what I want,...
The doubled date on the 1864-L Cent has been a known variety for a long time. I had one when I was in high school in the mid 1960s. It had EF...
I would speculate that the “1873-S Dollar” is a fairly recent Chinese fake. The Chinese use that “shoe polish” toning technique to simulate age....
It’s made of 90% silver and that’s all it’s going for it. There is little numismatic value there.
It’s not necessarily “the grading system;” it’s the “over grading” system that the third party graders use. I showed my Wreath Cent to some EAC...
My Wreath Cent is also a Sheldon 11c. These coins were made on poor planchets. My piece has the makings of a lamination, but I think that it will...
That works for most coins the modern era, but not for many ancients, British hammered pieces and tokens. Some pieces are always stronger on one...
If it has a copper center, as all copper-nickel clad coins do, it's not silver. The core on the 40% silver clad pieces was 20% silver and 80%...
Unfortunately, the answer is most collectors find these coins dull, boring and ugly. Many of them were poorly made, and the designs were trite and...
This is a medal, not a coin. Believe it or not, the piece that Congress voted to award to Zachary Taylor was made of sold gold. [ATTACH]
Everyone seems to think that this is a Proof. If it is, I would not go too high up the ladder. The spot on the reverse between the two ribbons at...
The 1793 Liberty Cap has never been an my list. I have been quite satisfied with a very nice 1794 Head of '94 and a slightly better 1795 plain...
Chain Cents are not that rare, but finding one with smooth, “hard” (not porous or corroded) is not easy. I have owned two over the years and a...
The quality of the coins that the Denver Mint made in the early 1960s was pretty bad. I happened two bank sealed rolls of 1962-D Franklin Half...
This topic was on the ancient coin forum. I decided the re-post the idea here since the coin I would list is not an ancient. I have been a U.S....
Unfortunately my most interesting coin is not an an ancient piece. It's the 1848 CAL. U.S. $2.50 gold coin. This coin was made from the first...
In think that the "1885-CC" is bad. To begin, the two "C"s in the mint mark don't match. I have never seen that before. Second, the 1885-CC is...
For coins and tokens that are struck with a closed collar, there three sides, the obverse and reverse dies and the collar that goes around the...
Here is the biggest "finned" piece in my collection. This ian 1864 Lincoln campaign piece that subsequently made it into the Patriotic Civil War...
Probably someone's pocket piece. That's how these coins are often made. Many times it's not from getting used in circulation
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