From what I gather - around here and other places where it's discussed, crackouts seem most common in MS and maybe AU grades. I once cracked an...
Further muddle. Ironically, PCGS estimates 2000 coins surviving and only 50 of those over ms60. Apparently this bears no relationship to the...
What you say is true I'm sure, but certified small dates are pretty unusual in comparison to large dates. There do seem to be plenty of raw ones...
SuperDave - thanks, I noticed that there are very few small date 1820's for sale right now on the most common lists. Ii found one website that...
Ok. Thank you for taking the time to check that out. I looked up the Randall Hoard. No wonder there are so many mint state copper coins from...
Excellent - kind of what I was thinking. Since I know so little about early copper, and you and others have helped me make some good decisions...
Yeah, that seems likely. As some of them do have CAC stickers - makes sense they would have sent them all in. This one has some mottling on the...
One that I can afford, that I like, and that fits in my collection. I will have to pay little more than it sold for at the heritage auction...
It says it's available, but just below that it's marked "sold". hmm?
I'm not a tone collector, but I'm curious as to how TPG's and CAC fit into this? In the older US coin market CAC has certainly had an impact on...
My only issue with Heritage is their no return policy. Dealers and Ebay (and of course dealers selling on Ebay) often allow returns on items in...
It's an interesting, and obviously subjective question. I've found that CAC coins will generally bring about one grade higher money than run of...
Pretty much the same situation as me except I have slightly more NGC than PCGS graded coins. I don't buy the holder and because I collect older,...
Did it! Thanks.
I enjoy the NGC registry and since I don't submit a lot of coins for grading I've kept my NGC membership in part because they allow PCGS as well...
When my collection was primarily raw coins I would spend $400 for silver and up to double the melt value for gold - if I liked the coin. Once I...
[ATTACH] 1840 quarter eagle, mintage less than 19,000, estimated survival of 80 coins total. R 8.2
I bought an 1891CC XF45 half eagle in an ICG holder for about $500 - back when gold was pretty high. Cracked it and sent it to NGC. It came back...
To Liberty's nose? This coin is a broad mill (not designated), NGC AU55 w CAC. So I assume the void in the poor thing's nose, being as sharp and...
An interesting statement. Question is, would you pay extra for a coin that was of CAC quality that you liked - a coin that would likely have...
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