Oddly enough, the Virginia Half Penny is not that tough in Mint State from a hoard of 700 or so pieces that surfaced in the 1870s. It's actually...
Okay, here is a Mint State 64. An AU would only have a brush of wear on the devices and most of its mint luster. The LIBERTY is a little weak on...
In the old days it was Fine-15 to VF-20. Today it's a VF-25 to 30. Calling it EF-40 is grade-flation.
The Kennedy half dollar killed the half dollar as a circulating coin. Not long after that, speculators got wind that the price of silver was...
PR-63, CAM [ATTACH] This was my type coin for a number of years. When I had my coins graded 25 years ago, this was one of the pieces which came...
If you become interested in coins, they are great, but they are not really collectors' items. If you become of a collector and coin buyer,...
1844 Polk campaign tokens are among the most expensive and hardest to find. The Democrats were offended by the flood of tokens that the Whigs...
They are supposed to circulate, but it seems like the only pieces are sold by the mint for more than face value. It costs a good deal less than...
It's a shame that we are having a Semiquincentennial and none of the coins are in circulation. I remember there loads of Bicentennial quarters in...
The Buchanan token is struck poorly in the center of the reverse because the relief of the portrait on the obverse was too high. It sucked up on...
This Columbian came with one of the containers that housed the coins when they were sold at the fair. Yes, it has the "dreaded" tannic toning....
Yes, it is. The "L" is visible, and the bust is pointed. Here is a Mint State Example. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Pointed Bust [ATTACH] Rounded...
Here are a couple of Mint State Indian cents which are mostly red. Your coin should look similar to these pieces. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yep, holed and plugged, and not done that well.
PR-67 [ATTACH] PR-68, Cam [ATTACH]
The 1851-O Silver Three Cent Piece is fairly affordable until you hit the MS-66 grade. Then they called it "finest known," and the prices go into...
Here's mine. I have never gotten very deep into this series. It was one of those copper pieces that was issued during the age of the Articles of...
The BIG veto was the one for the recharter of the Bank of the United States. It was sort of the 19th century version of the modern Federal...
Yes, silver bars were really hot in the 1970s. Some people thought that they would have a long term collector value, but most of us, who were...
The Draped Bust design of the late 1790s and the early 1800s was my favorite since high school, but I would not want to see it used for a regualar...
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