Condor is one of many people who was purged from the rolls. Unlike some others he has either never been reinstated or asked to be reinstated.
I did a Google search on these. Some outfit called the American Mint is offering some them. It’s hard to believe that the ended up in a cash...
I compare their toning material to shoe polish. I am quite sure that acetone can lift it.
After you have seen a number of Chinese counterfeits, you come to recognize this look. It's the type toning that appears on most of all their...
You are better off leaving coins with gray toning alone. Any worn piece, like that Lexington half dollar, that has white shiny surfaces like that...
Don't get addicted to the "CAC trap." Years ago this coin could have been graded from MS-64 to MS-65. The minor disturbances on Washington’s cheek...
According to the Greysheet, they are worth $130 a roll or $3.25 apiece in average Good. VG and better rolls are quoted at $260 or $7.50 apiece....
I am constantly undergrading these coins, but from the looks of this one, I would say the market grade is EF-40. So far as i'm conerned, it's a VF-30.
The biggest concern these days is, are they genuine? With so many Chinese fakes on the market, you always have to keep that in mind. We can't help...
It's in the center of the obverse, and it's only the concave dent. Civil War bullets were low velocity projectiles. The force from the bullet was...
Here a model of The Hunley that is available at the gift shop. This one is too big to get into an exhibit case, which was my bad. They are smaller...
I remember when I finished my set of the 1940 to date Lincoln cents back in the early 1960s. I was so proud of it that I typed out a little sign...
There is no hole. It was an attempted hole at the top of the obverse. An attempted hole is worse than a real hole on these pieces. One of the...
Here is an 1868 U.S. Grant presidential campaign token that was in the Eric P. Newman collection. This piece is not listed in DeWitt catalog of...
I don’t know how much you paid for this, but it’s often financially dangerous to get involved with modern coins “on the ground floor” before the...
An expert copper restorer / preservation person might be able to remove the greenish stuff from the obverse safely. You might try to push it...
You beat me to it on this, and your photos are much better than what I could get at the museum. The gift shop does sell a nice reproduction of...
Nice William Henry Harrison medalet, Idhair. ;) This one was struck over an 1838 large cent which shoots a hole in the idea that these pieces...
If you find that you need to increase the size of Capital Plastic holder openings on a regular basis, they sell a great tool for doing that.
MS-64, but it’s not choice because it had lost something from having been dipped.
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