Original surfaces is a big plus for these coins. This piece has never been dipped, and maybe they will give it a point for that fact.
Sometimes the graders from both services look at lot of luster, and "lose their minds." Marks DO MATTER. If they didn't, there would be no...
PCGS "Coin Facts" has survival estimates for everything, but I've found them to be on the low side in my opinion. In other words, I think that...
Really? My experience has been just the opposite. Given the minor marks, I would say that this coin would get an MS-65 in the NGC holder and an...
If you are buying for "investment," none of the above. I have done very poorly with my coin purchases over the past decade, and I have purchased...
It all depends upon what you paid and what you want to do with it. I would NEVER pay big bucks for an MS or PR-70 graded copper coin. The chances...
I think that you would need to go to the big ANA or Winter FUN shows to make sure that could happen. You could do it at Baltimore, but it's not...
I am 0 for 10 on that list and will never improve on that record. Some of those coins do nothing for me. If you are going to encourage...
MS-64. I see a straight line mark on the Indian’s stomach and another one above the right knee (view’s perspective).
My best experiences were at the Worthy Coin shop in Boston, Massachusetts, which ran a weekly bid wall from the fall to the spring. I'll post this...
Yes, not real. When you see only a fraction, and especially a bear, you are looking at something that Woolworth’s used to sell for $2 in the...
Yes, some of best coin pictures I have taken were of raw coins with a table lamp high overhead. Slabs drive you crazy because of the reflection...
I think that a collection is finished when say it’s finished. My type set is finished except when NGC adds a modern coin to it. The last one cost...
These pictures of an 1825 quarter eagle, a tough coin, are accurate in their own way. Neither tells the whole store about the coin. The quarter...
A word the the wise ... when you are going to and from a coin show, it’s a good idea to be as inconspicuous as possible. Years ago I saw an old...
I have read that over half of the varieties that the British - Roman usurper, Carausius issued featured Pax on the reverse. That makes sense...
Here is my piece with Julius Caesar on the reverse. It's high grade, but not well centered. [ATTACH]
I don’t think the government will ever sell those 1933 double Eagles. They are not like a car that has been confiscated from a drug dealer. Unless...
I don’t understand why people are so impressed with these cloudy Proof Eisenhower Dollars. Yes, the mint packaging has caused many of these coins...
Paying a lot of money for a known counterfeit is a risky move given the fact that it is illegal to own it. Yes, the law is selectively enforced,...
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