When I started collecting, a Two Cent Piece with no “WE” showing was a Good. Now this one is probably graded Fine. It also has rim damage to boot....
If you put out anything decent, you might as well put a sign on your front lawn that reads: Coin Collector Lives Here Come Rob Me!!!
The shipment of gold that came from California might have been used to make these two medals that were awarded to Zachary Taylor and Winfield...
It's time to dust off another of my old articles that I wrote for my local club. Here one about the 1848 CAL. $2.50 gold piece. [ATTACH]...
When you have "registry fever" and more money than you know what to do with it, you get involved with coins like this at these prices. Frankly...
My experience has been that this statement is not true. Unless you find someone who is really thrilled with this group of coins who wants to keep...
Having a collection of couple thousand coins, excluding any rolls, I don't think I could do that.
Unfortunately the coin appears to be a cast counterfeit. They crop up from time to time. Here’s one that I flagged that was consigned in my local...
I put this set together years ago. The values provided by the previous posts are accurate. When I was putting this set together in the late 1980s,...
As my local club's treasurer, I get $2 bills just about every month from collectors and dealers. All of them seem to be crisp Uncirculated. The...
One of the huge problems that a struggling government faces is how to maintain the value of its paper money, especially when it is issuing too...
I agree. Every collector who buys more than a few gold pieces should get a copy of this book. It will enhance your enjoyment of you collection.
Back before certification became widespread, one of the problem that many collectors and dealers faced was how to tell the Proofs from the...
For the vast majority of the cases, that is true, but if you see defects on something that is given a very high grade, it's a good idea to leave...
During the 1880s, the Philadelphia Mint produced some beautiful gold dollars. The mintages were generally low, and one result was that the dies...
If it's so small that you need to take close-up pictures like that, chances are it carries no premium in the market. Some of those lines are die...
You can find some of the same thing in U.S. Lincoln Memorial Cents. Back in the early 1960s, rolls of BU coins were all the rage. Historically...
Even if the scratch is on the slab, which it must be (What legitimate grader would give a coin with a scratch like the 67 grade?) the white toning...
It should be graded MS-64, but with the color on the reverse, it probably got an MS-65.
I would keep it raw. There are a lot of marks on the face that limit the grade to MS-63. It could be lower. With this date and mint mark there is...
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