Yeah the Mint Cabinet, was sent off to the Smithsonian and became the National Numismatic Collection about a hundred years ago or so. I got lucky...
Grease filled die, with some strike doubling. The curved top of the T is from a slight striking weakness.
Exposures seem inconsistent and the white balance looks to be off.
Don't you just love descriptive labels. 1795 "three leaves". Could be one of two different rev dies and four different varieties (B-5, 6, 7, and...
What "cabinet"?
What do you expect them to do? Get a team together and invade the Chinese mainland? Grab one of the guys making the fakes and drag him back to...
The law allowed for the sale of pre-revolution Cuban materials, it is ebay's and paypals own rules that disallow it. (and that has only been the...
Maybe so, but people will buy them.
Why not, there probably is lake front property on Montana. I would bet they probably have some lakes in Montana, and lakes can have beaches....
Ther are only two obv dies for the 96 caps where the 1 is away from the hair S-83 and S-91. On S-83 the 6 is almost right up against the bust....
You might be able to get around the insurance problem by enclosing the bottom portion of the press in a clear plastic housing so people can't get...
It might be a Numistrust slab. From doing a little research on the sellers business he seems to be a promoter of NTC material. from a local sale...
What would happen if you used Goo-Gone on this coin? Would you get "IN WE TRUST"?
First step is to learn as much as you can about how coins are made. Once you have a good knowledge about how regular coins are made you will be...
The "No line fatties" are pre 1995. without checking I don't know if the "fattie" slab with squared off edges ended with NGC 6 (95 to 97) or NGC...
May or may not be able to tell anything for sure from that because some SVDB obv's may have been used for non-VDB cons. Although if you can show...
Well you are right about one thing, they are no good. All of those are Chinese fakes.
It has been going on for years. As mentioned heritage did it years ago and so do several other auction houses. It is simply an auction house...
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