Lovely coins. Are those adjustment marks on the reverse, K9 to 10? The marks appear to be incuse, so appropriate for file marks. But, the marks...
Randy, given that Christian Gobrecht died in 1844, it is pretty unlikely that he had any part in the design of the Trade Dollar. Can we rule out...
Hear! Hear! I view my cost of collecting as a rental fee for the pleasure provided. If you go a movie, the rental fee for pleasure is entirely...
In general, the "time of publishing" is considerably earlier than the date on the issue date. Time of publishing is when the final copy goes to...
Does that effigy have a nickname? Maybe "Fishwife" or "The Pugilist"?
The closest match to photos and written description is RPD-007 described as follows: "Repunched 1 seen above the base and top of the 1....
Kevin Flynn's The Authoritative Reference on Two Cent Coins C2011, lists 24 business strike RPDs for the 1864 LM. If you can obtain close,...
It is pretty but it doesn't fit anymore and I'm committed to cleaning out the stuff that doesn't fit anymore. Hope the wife doesn't get that bug...
10-4. A nice one, with a full to fullish date, will be hard to find. I did find a pretty 53 in PCGS Ms-64 in a dealer's inventory but he wanted...
I am looking to replace the Variety 2 With Drapery Half Dime (1840-1853) in my type set because I sent my raw coin off to NGC and it came back...
In the meantime, we still have gasoline priced in 1/10th of a cent.
Not qualified to comment on the coloring. But if those are indeed die breaks on the effigy, then they are not a cause for a details grading since...
I'll be there providing life or the alternative doesn't have a say.
Spot on on all points. The commercial pricing of early copper is almost exclusively based upon the TPG grade. There is a pretty large raw market...
Cool to have coins with a provenance. I have about half a dozen of the McCloskey half dimes from the auction back in Feb, 2022.
Here's my contribution: This 1853 No Arrows dime is the plate coin from Kamal Ahwash's seminal book on Liberty Seated dimes. Indeed, that is why...
Keep Coin B or keep both. Pro Coin B: IMHO, you would really have to be a huge fan of the circcam look to overlook Coin B's higher grade,...
Keep the 54-O. Despite lower grade, it's the more desirable coin from a market standpoint. Since your type set is a mid-grade collection, the...
B because of much better strike and whatever caused PCGS to give it a 64 isn't distracting. I fine A's poor strike much more distracting....
Picked up 3 of the new CACG boxes at the latest FUN show. I like the boxes just fine except for one idiosyncrasy. I found that if you insert...
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