The 1796 didn't have much for rims to start with. That was one of the problems with the early U.S. coins. They didn't have rims to protect the...
This 1800 half dime is the best early U.S. coin I have in my collection, grade-wise. It's graded MS-64. It used to be one of the plate coins on...
I paid $90 for this when I was building a raw and certified set of Indian Cents. It is a semi-key date. The grade was EF-45. [ATTACH]
People have posted some circulated large cents asking for a opinions. Some people think I am too tough. Having just completed a date a set of...
Does anything think that you are going to buy this 1802 large cent from a person who knows what they are doing for AU-55 money? PCGS graded MS-63,...
The EAC collectors have a different system. Don’t think that their grading system will give you bargains. Their prices run way ahead of catalogs...
Fine-12 would be EAC grading with a reduction for the whatever the stuff is around the bow on the wreath and in the “U” in “UNITED.”
The sharpness grade is VF-25. I think it might have been cleaned, but that might just be the photography.
I picked the 1800 over 2 half cent. I owned a nice one at one time although it came back to me in body bag. The ignorant person who made that...
The 40% half dollar was a compromise to please the silver lobby. They wanted the dime and quarter to be 40% silver coins too. I wrote a paper on...
When I was kid in the late 1950s and started spending my allowance and what I earned from mowing the lawn, I received half dollars in change, but...
Oddly enough, the Virginia Half Penny is not that tough in Mint State from a hoard of 700 or so pieces that surfaced in the 1870s. It's actually...
Okay, here is a Mint State 64. An AU would only have a brush of wear on the devices and most of its mint luster. The LIBERTY is a little weak on...
In the old days it was Fine-15 to VF-20. Today it's a VF-25 to 30. Calling it EF-40 is grade-flation.
The Kennedy half dollar killed the half dollar as a circulating coin. Not long after that, speculators got wind that the price of silver was...
PR-63, CAM [ATTACH] This was my type coin for a number of years. When I had my coins graded 25 years ago, this was one of the pieces which came...
If you become interested in coins, they are great, but they are not really collectors' items. If you become of a collector and coin buyer,...
1844 Polk campaign tokens are among the most expensive and hardest to find. The Democrats were offended by the flood of tokens that the Whigs...
They are supposed to circulate, but it seems like the only pieces are sold by the mint for more than face value. It costs a good deal less than...
It's a shame that we are having a Semiquincentennial and none of the coins are in circulation. I remember there loads of Bicentennial quarters in...
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