[ATTACH] I was born and raised in Delaware, and for part of my collecting life I have tried to find tokens, medals and paper money that have a...
[ATTACH] This piece is listed in the Fuld Civil War Token book as a Chicago, Illinois item with the variety number IL 150-AS-1a. The obverse...
Adjustment marks might not effect the grade, BUT they can effect the market price and the ease of selling the piece. Adjustment marks that make...
I know that this is a minority view, but try to avoid catching “CAC fever.” It really does not make any sense unless you have high end, expensive...
Here is the highest grade Bust Dollar I have in my collection. It is a PCGS AU-58. The piece does have some luster under the heavy, original...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] You could post a few over time and get a sense of the grades. Unless you have not talent for grading at all, I would think...
The Standing Liberty Quarter is a beautiful coin in Mint State or AU, but in the circulated grades, I don’t find them attractive.
He’s off-base with that comment. Given the millions of Mint State Morgan Dollars that came from mint bags, it’s hard to believe that vast numbers...
It's been dipped at once already. The ugly toning you see is the result of a dip that was not properly rinsed and neutralized.
You could post some of your Morgan Dollars here, and ask for people to grade them. If you have a copy of one the recognized photographic grading...
The letters look at little "fat" to me. The overall look says genuine, but the details leave me wondering. Whatever it is, it has been cleaned,...
AU-50 holder, Old-time EF-45
When I see a dealer trying to sell a coin with True View images, the term “strike two!” goes off in my head. Those are “glamour shots” that are...
This is the point to so many collectors miss when they think so highly of "key date coins" with not much history attached to them. Those coins are...
No, the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Half Dollar was a commemorative that was sold for more than its face value. Many of them were returned to...
Abraham Lincoln was the central figure in the Civil War. There were more token varieties and probably more tokens produced with his image on them,...
I have several This Lincoln portrait could have been used in a book called Lincoln the Vampire Slyer that was introduced years ago. [ATTACH]...
If you are selling that at a price I can afford, I will happily take that “ugly coin” off your hands.
The 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial half dollar had the conjoined busts of Washington and Calvin Coolidge on the obverse. I don’t think that it...
Eagle Albums used to offer pages that held slabs, but that gets expensive because they only held nine coins per page. I’m not sure what you can...
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