Ask the gold lobby. Logic sometimes means little in politics.
Not to me, but I don’t pay extra money for toners. There is a reason that the reverse is shown first. It’s artificially toned, but it looks nice....
I can understand that, but I would rather deal with almost any coin dealer than eBay.
According to Roger Burdette, the idea was that the $3 gold coin made sense when making change from other gold coins, like $5 gold. It had nothing...
Better still, you are way better off avoiding eBay entirely because of the hidden snipes that snatch the item from you after it as closed. EBay...
The last I knew, NGC graded moderns didn't bring prices any where near to what some collectors will pay for the same grade in a PCGS holder.
Here is the second piece I acquired from the DeWitt sale, a John Frémont ferrotype. A ferrotype features an actual photograph of the candidate....
@ddddd, there was also another presidential election that was thrown into the House of Representatives after the 1824 election. There Henry Clay...
I received my two purchases from the DeWitt political sale today. I was hoping to buy more, but the prices were so strong, I simply could not...
Here are my two Probus pieces. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Silvered Antoninianus of Probus, Obverse: IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVR, “Emperor caesar Marcus...
There are no “black beauties” among nickels. They are called corroded. There can be “blue beauties,” but for me it’s a narrow qualification. Full...
It may have been left in an acid soak for too long. The dealers used to call it “fried.”
Usually there is a big difference between MS-64 and 65. If you ignore that and pay prices based on PCGS numbers, you can be in the hole big time....
All I will tell you that based upon my 60+ years of buying and selling, buying traps is not a fun way to collect. Dealers have also sorts of sales...
Sorry guys, but if your standards have you buying that coin as an MS-65, you need to make some adjustments.
They are counterfeiting circulated, common date Morgan Dollars. Who would have thought that the Chinese would go to the trouble to do that?
If it's at "steal price," chances are you are going to see a lot of counterfeits. The old saying if "If it's too good to be true, it probably is."
Here is a Mint State 1921-D dollar. "D" stands for the Denver Mint. It's not nice enough to spend the money on grading it. If I did have it...
You 1953-S cent would grade MS-63, Red. The color is great, but it has a number of marks and the spot on the obverse. Don't touch the spot no...
Are you sure you aren't talking about the 1969 cents. The 1968 cents were the last use of the original Brenner artwork, and Lincoln was little...
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