Woot! Now I can get my 1792 Half Disme struck on nail! Heck, why stop there? William the Conqueror Penny... nay... Eid Mar Denarius struck on a...
It looks like he actually got the alignment of the dies right.
Wow, that slab is trashed. Try VAM 35 or 39. Smear some oil on the slab to fill in the scratches for easier viewing.
Care to hear about my Classic Commem type set?
On VAMWorld, you'd be asked to poke it with a stick.
Now that it's free, I find myself using PCGS CoinFacts more and more. It shows their retail pricing alongside auction prices. If I'm looking at...
The color of the half is a little flat looking, but I still like it more than the cent. A 14-D Lincoln in VG is probably more common.
Pretty decent looking coin. 63-64, I guess.
For $100-200, I don't think you'll particularly like a proof coin you pick up as much as a business strike. It looks like MS64RB, MS64RD, or even...
Nice looking sets!
Run, Forrest! Run!
This is correct. The new PCGS slabs, for example, are significantly lighter than the older ones, even though they seem bulkier. Even if you had...
The weight bugs me more than anything else. One possibility is that this is a GMM reproduction that has been worked to obscure the COPY stamp and...
No 66s in that batch. You might get a 65RD on the 66, the 63-D looks 63RD, the others 64RD.
These are quite impressive on many fronts. Nice, hefty 2 oz. feel. Well-executed, high relief design. I imagine they'll be pretty cool once...
Grade is probably 58-61. There are a lot of doubled obverses for 28-S as well. Check TRVST, as that's where they often show up.
This. The term "depression coin" is not numismatically significant. It doesn't indicate that a coin is any more or less rare than a pre- or...
Report them all. It doesn't take long. The picture of the seated dollar and bust dimes look quite odd, almost like the pictures were...
Silver is silver, and I never said the toning process applied was normal (although it doesn't look bad). Things that would interfere with the...
Problem coin, abraided with something, toned to cover it up. Exactly what imparted the lines on the once-pristine coin and why, I'm not sure,...
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