You can start with a box of twenty, but as a 70+ year old collector who has been at it since the 1960s, the number of boxes gets much bigger. I...
Yes, having been dumb enough to get caught up in those, I know what you mean. Thank goodness the dumb one I was involved in was a very scarce coin...
Sorry, not even close. Here is the one in my type set. It's graded MS-66. It would not be worth grading today. I paid $25 for it, to fill the...
I think that the color will hold it back. In the old days, it would have been a VF-35 or so. If the color were even, it would be at least EF-45,...
Here are some of the Prohibition buttons that I have. I don't have a "devil" example. This was a major argument for Prohibition in the 'teens....
I checked into what dealer Jeff Garrett had to say in his U.S. gold coin encyclopedia. For the 1892-O $10 gold, he says that it is easily obtained...
Many years ago, I went to one of those shopping mall coin shows. A guy had an 1877 Indian he had found with a metal detector. There was no...
The 1877 Indian Cent was my dream coin in high school. I finally got one. It had Fine sharpness for the time, but there was a very small green...
Oddly enough I have never collected temperance tokens, mainly because they are not listed with the presidential tokens listed in DeWitt /...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here is one that is in an MS-64 holder.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] How about one dated 1906?
It's a counterfeit that has been made into an non-existent date and mint combination. The Chinese have done this numerous times. They have dies...
It has a sharp date, and for that reason, it grades at least Fair-2. The reverse is an AG-3.
The sharpness grade is VF - 30. The grading on the Seated Dollars is a bit different from the other denominations of this type because the...
The photos are not sharp enough to tell for sure, but my first impression is that the piece is a counterfeit. More than a decade ago, the Chinese...
You have the Type II Bicentennial dollars. I can tell by the thickness of the letters in “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” The Type I letters are thick,...
Perhaps the most famous "fin" of all is the 1907 High Relief $20 gold with the "wire rim." It seems be the most common variation for that "trophy...
I view the the 1794, Head of '94 cents to be quite elegant looking coins, given that they were worth just a cent.
This is a common date that was issued after the Proof only 1895 dollars. It's long been a favorite date of mine because of its connection to the...
Here is the largest fin I have ever seen on a coin, token or medal. This is one of those fancy Civil War tokens that were was made for collectors....
Separate names with a comma.
