Were any ancient planchets made using the technique which was used by the medieval coiner? Ingots of gold or silver were formed and then hammered...
In my opinion, the quality of the Roman coins really slipped with emperor Constantine. The portraits were far more crude, and really only...
This is the only "old gold" Proof coin I have. The Type III gold dollars are the most common pre 1933 gold pieces in the United States series. The...
I shipped the package this morning.
Many Morgan Dollars were kept in bags, away from the air, for many years. The fact that they did not tone is because of the way they were stored....
Believe it or not, dealers are now cracking up the modern silver Proof sets and tossing the quarters into silver junk boxes. When I saw one dealer...
If you send an ancient coin, you need to write up something about the coin, or it will just be "a seconds and done situation." I don't know what...
I would love to go to both, but since my wife and I have sworn off New York City, I will only got to FUN. There is a large foreign coin area at...
The coin is an NGC MS-66. I guess it needs to be dipped because it was probably saved in a coin cabinet with obverse up, or perhaps it preserved...
I was refering to the piece in the ANACS "AU Cleaned" marked holder.
Dipping and cleaning are two different things to knowledgeable people. The purists, who obsessed with originality, think they are one in the same....
Because the 1853-D gold dollar was the first gold coin I ever saw at 10 years of age, this one is one of my favorites. No, it's not the 1853-D...
I'm too old to walk that far. It would be fun if I were in the area.
Not a coin, but a token. This was made from iron which was recovered from the wreck of the CSS Virginia, the Confederate ironclad. It's made of...
It does not take much to get back a "details" grade on a $2.50 Indian. If someone scraped off a copper stain (caused by an improper mixing of the...
Yes, if I had my way, twelve Caesars would all be aureii. That is beyond my budget. The only aureus I have is a one from Antonius Pius which is...
My first gold coin was an 1854 Type II gold dollar. I bought it from my mother’s cleaning lady. Type II gold dollars had begun to become a big...
VF-25 in terms of wear, but the rims are a concern. If they net graded it, it's a Fine-15 to VF-20.
If it’s made of the “silver” the Chinese use in their Morgan “silver dollars”, you are paying $10 for pot metal.
From what I have seen here, the mint has made a lot of collectors angry. I am glad that I am pretty much done with the modern crap the produces. I...
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