Not a bad design. A rendering of the "ice caves" would have been cool, but the kayak would have been out of place.
Demand for (and premiums on) die break VAMs are typically for the later die stages where chunks of die are missing. Some people might be...
Gobrecht dollar in PR04.
58. Look at the high points of the eagle's left wing near the A in America, and the left leg on the obverse.
I was thinking VF30-35, but it has issues. Looks the the obverse rim was hit with an eraser at 6:00.
Seriously, though, if you want to see how good you are at picking the cream of the crop without sending any for grading, go through a bunch of...
Short answer: no. Long answer: ummm..... no.
For NGC, S$1 means silver dollar, as opposed to T$1 for trade dollar or G$1 for gold dollar. As far as I know, it's used on everything of that...
Very nice coin. I'm at VF30. As with @kaparthy, first impression was VF, and the inner wing detail is really nice. I found this XF in...
Dave Wnuck often has some of these.
The coin is the coin, or in this case, the planchet is the planchet. TPG holders use numeric grades to indicate state of preservation of...
Likely. This happened several years ago to PCGS's discussion board members. E-mail addresses that were publicly available on profile pages were...
I think more important than a precise label is precise instructions as to how to sell various groups of coins in your collection.
It seems to be the design of a William I penny (1066-87).
A few times a year, I send in bulk orders of 100-200 Morgan and Peace dollars. While at least half of my submissions come back without mistakes,...
Actually, I mean the risk that the seller takes by cracking a coin out of a holder, thus making it only a raw coin that he might not be able to...
The scenario has to do with safeguarding against bypassing an existing certification. For slabbed coins, once you crack it out, the certification...
OK, I'll give an example. I buy an unslabbed coin with a certified, immutable photo. I want to rip of an eBay buyer, so I take a new photo,...
You're missing my point. When an unscrupulous seller cracks out a coin to try and misrepresent it, they are risking the loss in value that comes...
The thing is, the ethics of such an organization are far more easily nullified by someone trying to misrepresent a raw coin than a slabbed coin....
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