There is a registry of the worst known coins which got a straight grade. I don’t understand it, but people pay big money for these terrible coins....
[ATTACH] To expand on what I posted previously. If you sell for mint luster on the piece in the fields with a look like this, it is Mint State....
It appears to have what they used to call “envelope friction.” Technically it’s a classic AU. Market grading would say it’s MS-62 Brown. I think...
People have done that with the coins they committed to buy from the U.S. Mint. Speculators would buy an issue thinking that it would able a good...
This might be called a multi-level wishy-Washy. This Hard Times Token, Low 51, was the first for this design. [ATTACH] The dies for this...
You might create a niche for yourself at a flea market, but a better bet might be local coin shows. To do that, you might need a sales tax account...
As a veteran collector, I think that a properly grade AU-58 is worth as much or more than a properly graded, but ugly, MS-60 or 61. It’s been like...
When I was collecting them in the early ‘60s, who heard of grades? I preferred the cards with white reverses over the grey reverses. I noted the...
Yes, a paper money dealer I know was complaining about the higher buyers’ fee after he had made a consignment to Heritage.
I look at the front of the GreySheet magazine where they give the metals prices. If they were behind the times, you knew that the bullion coins,...
It’s just the photo. It’s got bright luster with super smooth surfaces.
A word a caution about using the Grey Sheet to price these coins. It has run way behind the market for coins whose value is based mostly on the...
This is my best one, which grades MS-65. [ATTACH] This is my favorite one, which is in an MS-64 holder. I over paid for this because I bought...
NENA, the New England Numismatic Association issued a medal for the Cog Railroad in 1988. Here is a link to it....
Submitting a common date gold coin for an upgrade from MS-63 to 64 is not worth it these days.
If the 1907 has been fooled with, I'm a buyer for a jug of that of dip. What do you think of this one? It's only graded MS-63 in an OGL holder,...
I strongly tend to stay away from details graded coins. The trouble with them is that the problem will always hold the value back. If a given coin...
I have been building an early 20th century date set of quarter eagles. I have long found these dime sized coins to be more attractive than their...
That one would probably get under the radar, @Jersey magic man, because the word, “LIBERTY” is conspicuously missing from the obverse.
Two other problems are the disappearance of coins from circulation. Youngsters don’t see coins and don’t get interested in them. The second...
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