I learned many, many years ago that skepticism is a good thing ;) But I'll cross my fingers for ya.
Where is it written that anything you buy, a gold plated SQ, a painted ASE, a circulating coin, a Proof, a commem or NCLT is SUPPOSED to go up in...
No, it went from AU to MS details - big difference between that and going from AU to MS. But I do understand your point. Typically the owner would...
It's pretty rare for me to see a coin that I think is clean enough to grade higher but yet at the same time be one that should not be graded...
It's called pliofilm.
My thoughts - schedule a face to face appointment with the judge and go sit down and talk to the man.
Low AU and over-dipped I'd say. Over-dipped because there does not appear to be 1 trace of luster on the coin. And low AU because all the high...
From what I have personally seen of these appraisers, albeit limited, most of them don't know squat about coins. The few appraisals I have seen...
No, and while I can't swear to it I'd bet the Chinese get them one of two ways. 1 - they create transfer dies from genuine coins. 2 - they carve...
In modern days, yes. But in the days of Morgans, not so Frank. I almost bought a Morgan obverse die (think it was 1880-P if memory serves) from...
Send the coin in to NGC or PCGS. If it's real, you'll get that gold mine. And if it's not .......... then those who suspect it is not, including...
Those are pretty much the worst places to buy coins. Your best bet is to establish a relationship with a good dealer. There are many to pick from,...
If you can post a picture of the coin, both sides, I can give an approximate value. But I can do nothing without a picture.
Only way to answer that would be if you posted a few pics of the coins.
As I said, the bulbous serifs are the determining factor - http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page29.html
That is correct. Example - a coin in a regular NGC slab is submitted for grade review because of what looks like a problem of some sort. NGC may...
If a coin is conserved by NCS and then sent to NGC for slabbing and NGC slabs it - there is no designation on that slab that says that the coin...
Then you must not consider realized auction prices as retail prices because according to realized prices, the PCGS guide is about 30% too high on...
Cobs, Pieces Of Eight and Treasure Coins by Sewall Menzel - and that is not the design used on the 8 reales of the time. As for why someone...
Looks like one to me, the bulbous serifs are what denote the '81 type 2.
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