I think you get the "orange hoodie" when you have a lot taken down by the eBay management because it's a counterfeit. As for Thai counterfeit,...
It's hard to tell from those pictures. The dark streak on the reverse is a limiting factor for the grade. If it really looks like that, it's...
My experience with early copper and the grading services is colored by my experience with them 20+ years ago. The only coins that I had which...
Is this Civil War token a Lincoln piece? A majority of collectors say it's just an old man with a beard. The Fuld's listed the coin with the other...
It seemed like that program never got off the ground as a circulating coin. I thought that part of the trouble was the the economy was in deep...
I would say the slab grade is MS-62. In "the good old days" the coin would have been an AU-58. NGC gave this 1875-CC an MS-62. The reason why I...
Yes, I got a letter too. They still couldn't explain why they had to overcharge for the 2021 Proof set which had three less silver quarters in...
For what it's worth, here are some denarii Nerva [ATTACH] Trajan (Trojus?) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hadrian [ATTACH]
None of the above. I only buy holed pieces that were used as political tokens. In those cases the hole was required to wear them hung on a ribbon...
Here is the Lincoln Medal that Victor D. Brenner made for Lincoln. He showed an example of this piece to President Theodore Roosevelt, and the...
It’s more than perfect for a Dansco set because it’s nice enough to be slabbed. The Braided Hair Half Cents did not circulate very much. Almost...
The point is, when I can’t draw a crowd, I don’t get a chance speak. There was more than a decade between the 1795 and Lincoln pieces. The only...
I have been able to give programs at the FUN show on two occasions. One program was on the coins of the first U.S. Mint in 1795, including the...
They made special effort to get me to post there. I sort of had a special educational section. I give them essays for a while, but didn’t get many...
The rumor I have heard is that CAC might get in the actual slab business. A dealer at Summer FUN told me that as well. They have been contacting...
Over graded in my opinion. The big mark on Ms. Liberty's right breast is enough to take it out of the MS-66 class. When you blow up the photo, you...
As soon as you put a "70" grade on any U.S. coin, there will be registry buyers who will pay what it takes. So far as the "Will it last?"...
Mint luster is very important when one is grading these coins. The IP photo shows very little of it. I see frost in protected areas, but not much...
Cameo Proofs were unusual during this period. Therefore, just because a piece is a well preserved Proof, it does not mean that it is a Cameo. Most...
One of the worst emperors? When the list of the worst includes Caligula, Commodus, Didius Julianus (who bought the position), Caracalla and...
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