Chalk this up to being one of your more affordable lessons Tim. You'll have more, and some more costly. Package the coin, write a note on the...
Sometimes re-grading the coin makes sense. Other times I just resell the coin in the ICG holder because I'll make more profit talking the coin up...
A sound strategy. Even if silver does not come back down, you've moved to areas of the hobby that many deep pocket collectors will still...
As with all holders, buy the coin, not the holder. While I don't buy them often, I do not avoid them. As a dealer I have paid well over retail...
Gold in the 1870's was all over the map in terms of quality of striking. Grading much of the gold is as date-specific as are buffalo nickels.
I don't think this is a plating problem. The bubbles seen elsewhere on the coin result from entrainment of gas in the coil stock at the rolling...
Looks normal to me. I had a very similar looking 73-S, and the reeding looks very similar to that coin, which graded without a problem.
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Without getting too detailed about my personal life, I work a full-time engineering job, and run the coin business during evenings, weekends,...
I've been doing exactly that since 2006. Your figures are close, but off just enough to cast doubt about one's ability to make it on eBay. Take...
I respectfully disagree . . . Investment is the outlay of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or...
I like the intent within your reply, however it doesn't address head-on the question of whether coins are a bad investment (compared with other...
Following are new arrivals at www.toughcoins .com : 10c 1858-S PCGS VF30 PQ $5.00 1883 AU /...
Many years ago I won an 1869-S H10c in a teletrade auction, received it while away from home, and couldn't return it because my return privilege...
Mike, a coin's value depends on more than how it grades. How much the look of a coin pleases it prospective owner, or how well it matches the...
With our economy on the rebound, or so some would have us believe, I'm trying to understand the current market dynamic better. Who out there is...
I agree . . . there must be some self-serving purpose behind selecting a background that the coin blends into, rather than one contrasting with it...
I think you should visit your local coin shops, let them know what your goal is, and see if they'll let you paw through their 90% silver for a...
Nice job . . . hit two of the three dead on, and missed the third by only one point.
Judging from the obverse only, cleaned, UNC details.
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