Post mint damage, it's a dryer coin in the early to mid stages. Go to the first picture, enlarge it and look at the rims. Very high and...
That's the way my 1938 set came, stapled in cellophane envelopes inside a fiber re-enforced paper envelope. No box. Purchased from the man who...
Silver sulfide. Just differing thickness layers of silver sulfide, a corrosion end product. Can sure be purdy though.
Sounds like my kind of dealer to cherrypick because there is a lot of rare material out there that is NOT listed in the Redbook.
I would ship it back and trust him to refund. Try to make sure you send it back with delivery confirmation or whatever they have in S Korea that...
Or from what I see you just asked (or dialed as the case may be) for 24. Back then phone numbers were much shorter. I have advertisements from...
Thanks, I wasn't sure if it was 275 or 276, I have to use the distance from the head to LIBERTY to tell those two apart and with the steeply...
Another on-demand publisher is www.lulu.com That's where I have been planning to have the printing for the second edition of the slabbook...
Another widely collected token type that hasn't been mentioned is Coal Scrip. Actually Conder was not the first, he was the third, but his book...
Yes and no. Yes they still make the really flexible flips out of PVC, and NO it is not "PVC" that makes them flexible. PVC stands for Poly-Vinyl...
My 80 year old father thanks you for that comment.
How was the seller being deceptive? He told you what you were getting, accurately described it and that is what you got. It's not his fault you...
It probaly also result from suble changes intended to help fix striking problems. The proof coins and the business strikes are slightly differnt...
At $10 delivered I'll about guarantee he's getting a picked over set made upof coins that th seller felt wouldn't be worth grading. Doesn't mean...
Can you showa better picture of the rim ding? From what I see so far it looks normal with no excessiive damage that I would call a rim ding. But...
Don't blame the Mint, they gave the collector market exactly what it asked for. The collectors complained bitterly about the Mint cutting off the...
Not really because Kentucky charges sales tax on coins as well. Inventory tax and sales tax are not the same thing In theory YOU pay inventory...
If you do send them in for grading don't send them insured, send them Registered at the proper declared value. It's a little slower but it is...
Just got back from the grocery. On my way out as I passed the Coinstar machine I reached into the reject slot and pulled out the 1964 dime...
If you didn't realize the reverse had been changed, then how do you know they had two of them? Not all the early 2008 W Uncs were rev of 2007....
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