It seems as if the date of the host coin may have been deliberately defaced on a number of these. I wonder if that's just due to honest wear (the...
I'm a bit unclear on the history behind these - was there a currency devaluation in the 19th century that led to rampant counterstamping? Did the...
I recently purchased a group of Brazilian counterstamped coins. I've always wanted to have some 'official' counterstamps, and the price for these...
Are you doing type examples, or one from each mint and year? Some of the series dragged on and on...
Welcome to the forums, btw. If you have a scanner, you might want to scan the quarter. Even in badly worn condition, there are some telltale...
This is one of the reasons I started a thread about the US Assay Commission. Would you be more comfortable with the proposal if the mint new that...
I would be much more comfortable with his 'creations' if he edge stamped them or put some other identification device. At some point down the...
I'll go in with $281... good luck everyone (at getting the 2nd closest guess)!
The Assay Commission was abolished in 1980; a time when the US was no longer minting circulating silver and hadn't started to mint bullion (aside...
What I'd like to see is one of the 1951 2-wave varieties. Anyone here happen to have one?
Sounds like she may have been using an older coin book as her pricing basis. Silver has thrown a lot of those values wildly out of whack. As for...
Dealers often have asymmetrical knowledge about the coins that they are selling. After all, they have time to pull out reference books, go online,...
I picked up a 1951 the other day. I was pleasantly surprised to find it in a dealer's melt bin, and happy to save it from a hot fate. I am...
I picked up an 1851-O in a pile of foreign coins. The date was pretty well worn away, but the mint mark made attribution easy. I don't toot my...
I'm not the biggest fan of the Presidential dollars, but I wanted to see get an inexpensive multi-coin slab just to check it out. This caught my...
I wonder what they will use the proceeds to acquire? And I'm surprised that the ANA wasn't doing something to display the collection.
As I posted in another thread - would a tissue test work to tell them apart?
Slabs do make storage easier. If you're keeping this in a safe deposit box, I've found that slabs fit quite nicely and offer superior protection...
Huh. I saw one of those (in similar grade) at a PM dealer today. I didn't pick it up b/c my ol' Krause catalog had the 1917 listed as a fairly...
I shouldn't neglect the other coins I purchased today: including a 1908 Canadian 5 Cents, a 1937 New Zealand Florin, a 1913 Canadian 10 Cents, an...
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