One thing that makes me both angry and puzzled is why PCGS refuses to take pictures of every coin they grade currently. As a compromise they could...
Here is a Proof 1937 nickel. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The Proofs are so bright you can barely see the design. I’ll post one tomorrow.
Here is the only William Washington medal I have. It is a plain edge, and I believe that it was made at the Paris Mint sometime in the era from...
Yes, that medal is a modern French restrike, and has had its surfaces severely cleaned. I am not on my desktop and won’t have access to it until...
The 1806 C-1 is the second most common Draped Bust half cent. The 1804 C-13, Plain 4, Stemless is the most common half cent PERIOD IMO. It has the...
If that mark on Washington’s jaw is really there, it’s not an MS-68.
Old fashioned grading would be MS-63, “commercial MS-64, because of the scattered marks on the obverse that are easy to see. State Quarter grading...
I would say it might make it into an MS-63 holder on a good day. Over the years the grading serves have given the 1926 and 1932 ealges "easy...
All of the 1807 dimes were struck from the same die pair. I am sure that Robert Scot, the mint’s die maker and designer, realized that the Draped...
Oh I agree. That one is really nice, but how many years did it take you to find it? I saw a couple that were sharper with slightly smoother...
Earlier in the week I said that I had ordered an AS of Caligula, which was last Caesar I needed to have one coin from each of the first 12...
Here is the piece in my type set. It's graded MS-64. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, the reverse is slightly different. Alan Stahl, who gave a presentation and wrote wrote an article for the 1995 ANS Coinage of the Americas...
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In 1784, after the Americans and the British signed the Treaty of Paris, which won our independence, Augustin Dupré designed and executed a medal...
Here is the 1806 C-4 that is in my collection. It is now in an NGC MS-62, Brown holder. This piece piece was once in my half cent die variety set,...
This is “a Chapman hoard Unc.” The guides say that the Chapman brothers, who were coin dealers at the turn of the last century, had keg of these...
I tend to agree. The die canceling marks are not as sharp as they should be. Years ago the high mintage Brashlow restrikes were worth very...
No, the Confederacy did not have "very capable die makers." That was the immediate reason why the New Orleans Mint closed. The mint ran out of...
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