The pickings at the shows are definitely lower. In the old days I could often buy coins for around the "bid" prices on the Greysheet. Nearly...
The Silver Three Cent Piece pretty much becomes uncollectable as business strikes starting with the 1863. The limited business strike mintages...
The 1881 Nickel Three Cent Piece was sort of a "last gasp" for this denomination. The mintage was 1,077,000 which was well over the amount for the...
They have me beat. My oldest dated coin is this Mary and Phillip shilling from 1555. [ATTACH]
Lucky you. You have a store. I would still like to be in the buying and selling business, but that would require setting up at shows which is...
Starting over at this point would be impossible. There are so many pieces which represented opportunities which won't come again in my lifetime...
My stock and bonds are ahead of my coins. Investments are “work.” Coins are pleasure.
Yes, my eyes have been great for coins, with respect to grading and eye appeal. I have also had over 65 years of experience and have learned a...
That stuff is into the metal, it's a deduction.
The 1796 didn't have much for rims to start with. That was one of the problems with the early U.S. coins. They didn't have rims to protect the...
This 1800 half dime is the best early U.S. coin I have in my collection, grade-wise. It's graded MS-64. It used to be one of the plate coins on...
I paid $90 for this when I was building a raw and certified set of Indian Cents. It is a semi-key date. The grade was EF-45. [ATTACH]
People have posted some circulated large cents asking for a opinions. Some people think I am too tough. Having just completed a date a set of...
Does anything think that you are going to buy this 1802 large cent from a person who knows what they are doing for AU-55 money? PCGS graded MS-63,...
The EAC collectors have a different system. Don’t think that their grading system will give you bargains. Their prices run way ahead of catalogs...
Fine-12 would be EAC grading with a reduction for the whatever the stuff is around the bow on the wreath and in the “U” in “UNITED.”
The sharpness grade is VF-25. I think it might have been cleaned, but that might just be the photography.
I picked the 1800 over 2 half cent. I owned a nice one at one time although it came back to me in body bag. The ignorant person who made that...
The 40% half dollar was a compromise to please the silver lobby. They wanted the dime and quarter to be 40% silver coins too. I wrote a paper on...
When I was kid in the late 1950s and started spending my allowance and what I earned from mowing the lawn, I received half dollars in change, but...
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