When I was young collector, I went to one dealer almost exclusively, Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia, PA. Their prices were on the high...
If you look at the War Nickel section of the "Red Book," you will see a notation that "1944 nickels without a mint mark are counterfeits." This...
I had my suspicions when I looked at the last “8” in the date, but didn’t want to say anything until I was sure.
It is hard to respond to this without knowing what the coin in question is. Some coins are “too cheap” relative to their rarity, and you can’t...
Here’s a little tidbit. The last “8” in the date was made by punching two small zeros on top of each other. This once more desmonstates the early...
Thanks for posting this. I missed this incident when I was young collector in the 1960s. In addition to his famous 1944 nickel, Henning made...
Here is an 1875 Proof Twenty Cent Piece. The grade is PCGS PR-64, Cameo. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, I’ve seen some 1983 reverse side doubled die cents for which I would not have paid a dime. The plating was blistered and the air was rushing...
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The writing on the Declaration of Independence is quite dim. In 1826 the document was given to a printer so that he could make a copy of it. In...
First, even though the Proof mintage was 2,600, the 1875 double dime is not that common in Proof. From what i’ve read, a lot of them went unsold...
My local club was given a group of these coins that were in Littleton Coin Company packages. The coins were hand selected and very high quality. I...
Here is one more high grade example that is arguably better than any of the pieces shown above. NGC graded this 1881 gold dollar MS-67, and it has...
I cherry picked two when I was a dealer. The better one was very close to EF. I can’t believe that a dealer chould miss that, but he did. Given...
Was it "Scholastic?" That was the magazine we got in junior high school.
I'll bite. What's an "LCS?"
It truly amazes me that collectors take so little interest in the odd denominations these days. Despite the fact that coins like the half cent,...
THAT coin does flirt with the EF-40 grade although I would be inclined to grade it VF-35. The OP link led to an eBay offering that appeared to...
If the parallel lines are on the holder, it’s an MS-66. If not then it’s more like MS-63 with great color.
I read about the new cents in “The Weekly Reader,” which was a weekly elementary school newspaper. At this time, just before I got my first Red...
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