It's been said that Teddy Roosevelt characterized all of the U.S. coinage designs as “atrociously hideous.” Actually there were two designs that...
The only downer about these medals is that the designs were not greatest. William Barber was still the Chief Mint Engraver, and he had less talent...
That's another sort of collection. OTOH if you had a 60 piece set of Indian cents would go nuts trying to get them all with some color slab label?
Here is a link. Would you pay a premium price because of the label? I won't. https://www.pcgs.com/holders/Gen2.0
This essay is bit long, but I decided to post it any way. These medals have been an interest of mine for a while, but it was hard to find out what...
Yes, I have seen these posts from crazy collectors who get bent out of shape when PCGS changes the color or style of their label. They refuse to...
Does a perpetual calendar count? This piece was issued for the James G. Blain for President in 1884 campaign. It is perpetual calendar, which...
For me the search gets very old after a while. It gets worse when I see the item in auction. I hate auctions because I get run up most of the...
Frankly some rarities have ceased to provide any thrill for me when they are totally or virtually unobtainable. Two cases in point are the 1802...
I have no interest in this item. Contrived rarity takes the fun out it, especially when the items get “shipped out the back door” so that a few...
Nearly all of my better U.S. coins are slabbed. Some people think that slabs are perfect storage devices, but they are not. As with all plastic...
Really? Make up ten or twelve of them and see how many they are willing to buy. Producing this kind of stuff is easy. All it takes is dimes,...
Really? Duplicating that would be pretty easy to be worth $10. I made a coin tie clip in art class when I was in high school.
Have you ever tried to sell any of those coins, have them graded by TPG or asked an expert collector about them? It's conceivable that you did...
I was going to say, spend it in good health until I saw the loop on the back. In that case, the bank might redeem it as a dime. I don't see any...
Roll them up and take them back to the bank before they turn into a pile of zinc oxide.
Chances are the PCGS graded ones have a high market value than the NGC pieces. PCGS has a huge hold on the modern coin market. Even if the NGC...
Maybe they have chased away one generation of customers who wised up, and they are working with the next generation who have not figured out that...
Their close-up picture makes the coin look too bright and shiny for that issue. The Pan-PAC Dollar has frosted surfaces. It only looks like their...
That holds for a while, but grade-flation is really like a dog chasing its tail. You get a higher grade, but that increases the population of...
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