I wrap it in a soft cloth, put it into a vise edgewise with a plastic bucket underneath with a towel in it, and gradually crank down until I hear...
You know, I was at the Lakeland coin show yesterday and was looking at some really nice $3K to $5K coins from several dealers that had 1.5 to 3...
I bought two coins in ICG slabs at the show yesterday: 1913 Ty. 1 Buffalo Nickel MS-65 and an 1871 LS $1 EF-40. The nickel is very well-struck...
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@KBBPLL, your coin is the B-7 die marriage, R-2. Obverse 5 with a large 1 in the date. Reverse L, eagle has no tongue and the only reverse die...
@ksparrow , your coin is the B-1 die marriage, R-1: Same Obverse 1 as the OP's coin but yours has the Reverse H. As you noted "25 C." is...
It's held at the RP Funding Center just off downtown Lakeland. For a smallish town, it's a pretty large convention center, nicely appointed, good...
One other thing for you @GoldFinger1969 - There were a pretty fair number of SGs in dealer's cases but they outnumbered the LH DEs by about 4 or 5...
Lakeland used to be once a year but its been twice, I think, the last two years. The guy that puts it on kinda does what he wants, is my...
H'mm, I didn't try to take a count but let me take a stab at a SWAG: There were a couple of fossil-type dealers; four or five jewelry dealers;...
This looks like the B-2 die marriage, R-2, the second most common of the die marriages of 1835. All the diagnostics you mentioned as being...
I just returned home from the first day of the Lakeland Collect-O-Rama Show. I thought it was about as well attended and stocked with dealers as...
I said before the reveal that I graded it AU-55 but it was probably slabbed AU-58. I think the coin at AU-53 could easily be under-graded unless...
Well, here's a gold-stickered one. [ATTACH]
I have the same question that I think @GoldFinger1969 is asking: How do you get an invitation to the luncheon or cocktail hour or whatever it...
I think 55 but it probably slabbed at 58. Nice coin.
I'm not offering to sell. Nothing says I can't give him one of my old copies which is what I am offering. I subscribe to it and also CDN's CAC...
Looks like B8 to me.
Nice coin and variety. I think it will straight-grade. The obverse rim issues might knock grade down a bit and the abrasion on the reverse looks...
Photo is out of focus. But it just doesn't scream PMD to me, more like an as-struck issue. I would really like to see an in-focus close-up of...
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