I agree. CAC is pretty much ended my market participation in the U.S. coin market. I love the coins I have, but can't allow CAC to dictate what...
As a dealer you can't pay as much for raw coin becuase you have to spend more money on it to sell it. When I was a dealer I bought things like...
Here are a couple of Winfield Scott medals from the 1852 campaign. The first is an original medal issued during the 1852 campaign. [ATTACH]...
When I was a dealer I always took returns if it was within a couple weeks of the show. I thought that it was better to keep the good will of the...
One game that professional and amateur historians like to play is rate the presidents. Abraham Lincoln gets the top spot in many polls, but the...
i would encouage people to learn to grade coins and stop being so dependent on slabs and stickers, especially stickers.
I'd close, but no cigar. The rims are not there for a Matte Proof. Here is 1909 Lincoln in Matte Proof. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Mint State 1913 Type I Buffalo Nickels were saved in quantity and are not rare. You can buy a nice MS-64 for well under $100. An MS-65 will be...
That might be true for the New Orleans Mint coins. I have never collected or studied those pieces. It's not true for the Philadelphia and San...
It looks like a high end Mint State piece to me, something like MS-66 or 67. When you get the top grades like this, you really have to see the...
It looks like a normal 1922-D to me. The real thing really looks moth eaten. You coin is “too nice.”
Many collectors treat SEGS graded coins like raw coins. It’s not a matter of treating SEGS as a bad company; it’s just that they don’t have much...
I have a complete type set of the "old commemorative coins." I have given up on keeping up with the modern pieces. Believe it or not many of the...
I have never owned an 1885 nickel.
Here are a couple more pieces with Teddy Roosevelt in his Rough Riders outfit. [ATTACH] Teddy for Governor of New York! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And...
This one is quite conservatively graded. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This is just to show you that old ones do exist in Mint State. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Don't be discouraged by this. What you are doing sounds like a...
Here is a story that is well known to collectors. In 1883 the mint replaced the Shield Nickel with the Liberty Nickel. The trouble was the first...
Here is a Proof from my type set. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Avoid cleaning you coins. It destroys the value. Original brown toned copper is much better.
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