Yes this is my concern. The “brassy” photos make coin look cleaned, and some the quieter photos make it look like it has been rubbed in the...
Here is the example of Confederate note T-39 that is in my collection. I don't have any of the really big rarities. This one was signed by W.T....
That gouge would turn me off right away. My eyes would be drawn to it every time I saw it. Furthermore the gouge makes it an over graded coin in...
I have a list of emperors from Julius Caesar (Caesar's official title was "dictator.") to Severus III who was the last emperor according to some....
I do, but they are British, ancient Roman or political items, including tokens. I have not bought an important U.S. coin in about three years. The...
The saved labels are interesting artifacts, but they don’t prove anything. Once the slab is broken, the certification is null and void. The coins...
Actually it was a dog and a cat.
Collectors have been getting warned about fake gold dollars since I started collecting in the 1960s. There were pictures of genuine and fake gold...
The family did want to liquidate his collection. I was the high bidder on that piece and one other. So they got the cash. BTW, the collection was...
I had an example of the OP token that ended up in a Mint State holder. I sold it to someone who really wanted it for a couple thousand. He didn’t...
The total known used to be around 15. Now it might be 20 or so. There are now pieces that have gotten Mint State grade. That grade was not known...
The history of these Bust Half Dollars is that they spent most of their time in bank vaults as a back-up for the bank's currency. As such they did...
The price will be closer to $2,000 or more in my opinion. There are three varieties of the "Merriam & Company" Civil War token. That one is quite...
From my experience, which, I admit, is over 40 years in the past, Gold Dollars to do not do well in that type of album. They are too thin and end...
The way things are with silver dollars these days, you can't trust anything. The Chinese are probably approaching the survival rate for the real...
U.S. Silver Dollars from the 1850s looked like this. Sorry, I don't have an 1851 Silver Dollar. [ATTACH] U.S Gold Dollars looked like this. They...
Coins made worse through chemistry. They still have the melt value.
For me, one coin does it for all of the collections most of the time. Here is one of the few exceptions. [ATTACH] I have a certified 1908 I...
It looks bad. It has that "Chinese shoe polish toning" look.
VF-25, but it will probably come back as an EF-40. I always undergrade these things, and grade-flation makes up for the rest.
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