The token appears to grade Ch EF-45, but it might be called an AU today. That would peg the value at around $25 to $30 retail.
At VG money, you did okay. Given the lose grading standards, you don’t get much when you buy a better date in coin in that grade these days.
In 60+ years I have never filled the 1922 Plain hole in my Lincoln Cent album. I almost did when I bought a collection as a dealer, but another...
If it’s that big, you can buy it. I don’t want it. Having said that, I have not bought a conventional coin album since the 1970s. The closest...
I avoid “details” and problem coins. I would rather have a lower grade coin that a sharper piece with problems. A few years ago a dealer was...
If you feel the need to get it authenticated, go ahead, but the obverse has been cleaned to remove corrosion. It has EF-40 sharpness, but the...
I don’t see anything to “celebrate.” This is a made to sell piece of junk. Hard Pass! :greedy:
If the 1909 to 1958 Lincoln Cents were put into one album, the result would be huge and unwieldy. The trouble is with all the mint marks and the...
I’m amazed that he found two of them in a “tag sale.”:rolleyes: It has one of the usual Chinese toning looks. Then when you look at it in detail,...
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Yes, sadly both have been cleaned. The Plain 4 piece is quite common for a Classic $5 gold. The Crosslet 4 piece is really scarce. It’s scarcer...
The Fugio is ever better. It’s one of Club Rays varieties.
I have the Hawaiian in MS-64 and the Spanish Trail in MS-66.
That’s a little like the color set of early large cents Dr. Sheldon built probably in the 1940s. It was still intact when the Dan Holmes...
It must have been a custom made holder with coins the collector didn’t have left out.
Both coins are nice for their grades. The weakness on the left side of the 1811 half cent reverse legend area is normal. The color and surfaces...
It’s a nice coin, and it has no buying power. So why not keep it? It was the first “S Mint” coin, with the mint mark, qissued for general...
I would take the claim, “first coin struck with this die” with a grain of salt. There is no way to prove that unless the Denver Mint did that the...
MS-65, Brown
The trouble with judging cleaning from pictures is that angle of photo can hide hairlines. I once had an 1853 With Arrows half dollar that had...
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