It is expensive because it is historic and there are only about a half dozen known. I don't think the number on the coin has much effect on the...
In the slab it's a 30, out of the slab it's a 15. It may be recolored, (I didn't pay any attention to the color) but no way does it have XF...
NGC's report was in May, the coins were discovered and Coin World announced it in April.
Only about a half dozen of them are known. One of them turned up back in 1980 in a batch of junk silver being sold for scrap. It is believe...
I think the 56 might be a proof, I didn't think the 58 was but the more I look at it the more I'm not sure. Photographs of brilliant proofs if...
Most white metal pieces I see do have some degree of oxidation.
Should be interesting. Last time I went to the ANA in Chicago they had the finest possible PCGS Morgan and Peace dollar collections. PCGS had...
Hard to say but probably some alloy of tin and zinc. Possibly some traces of other metals such as lead or nickel if they wanted a little more...
But Burdette turned up paperwork that show that some of them WERE transferred to the Cash window. We aren't talking an assay box or something...
OK I know some of my schedule now. I will be there Thursday the 18th and Friday the 19th. On Thursday I'll be at the Liberty Seated Coin Club...
The mint DID make a medal to "show off" the new steam press, but this wasn't it. In fact they didn't HAVE a steam press in 1832. It came in 1836.
NGC now has a deal with numismaster that now provides all of Numismaster with the values for free to anyone who wants to use it. If you go to...
That's a good thing because if you did want them to dress up like playboy bunnies we would all be seriously worried about you. A podcast of...
One cavet. If the seller follows ebay and paypals instructions, ships it as they say to and the post office shows that it was delivered, he, and...
I think we need to see it before we can have any definite conclusions. One possibility is a counterfeit, another might be an over polished die....
Perfectly normal, less than fully struck half dollar. After the blank goes through the upsetting machine to convert it into a planchet, the edge...
I see traces of the reeding, especially in the third picture. Slot machines or vending machine might need longer than that, but get it stuck in a...
Yes it might bring more money if it was graded......from someone who has no idea what he is looking at but has had it hammered into his head to...
Right. "Exactly when did you notice that that some of the 1933 double eagles were missing and exactly how many of them were missing?" "Well we...
Not only is it old news, but I thought that several months back the mint changed the way they reported these orders to the credit card companies...
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