The more I look at the pictures of the 1877 and the 1909-S, the more leery I become. I have seen Chinese counterfeits with that type of toning. I...
I have never bought from them, but I would take Great Collectors over eBay by a wide margin. Great Collections has a good reputation. eBay is whom...
The difference between PR-69 and 70 isn’t even a hairline scratch on a modern coin. It can be as little as a pinpoint hole in the Proof fields...
When I was a kid, I got the 1873 open and closed 3 cents for my album, which didn’t have openings for both coins. I put the extra coin it the 1856...
I might buy it, if I was 100% sure it was gold, but chances are I won’t. My approach was to send them to the right dealer and not make ridiculous...
Many of these dealers don’t have the expertise or the customers to resell these coins. The best they could do would be re-sell the coins to...
I know a dealer who has a network of buyers who place orders whenever the mint sells a sure-shot, hot item. These buyers include some of his...
My guess would be no, unless the prices are so incredibly low that the purchase would be, as my grandmother used to say, “a dead give-away.”...
Why is the “ED” so sharp if it was under a fallen lamination? I have seen other laminations where the design elements were only a shadow of what...
The 1877 has a sharpness grade of Fine by today’s standards, but it appears to have been cleaned. That will lower the value by a significant...
Long ago, it was not unusual to old large cents like this that had had some or all of the hair detail restored via tooling. I don’t think that is...
The fancy word for making money by finding minute differences in exchange rates is “arbitrage.” So far as having the early U.S. made out of base...
The San Francisco Mint is mostly known in the very modern era for making special coins like commemoratives and Proof sets. There have been times...
I have never owned a brockage error. I knew a fellow when I lived in New Jersey who had a Matron Head large cent circa 1816 to the mid 1820s that...
I think I ended up selling to a specialist more than a decade ago for around $850. These two error coins were produced when two planchets got...
I bought and sold this one when I was a dealer. It is a matched pair. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I suppose if it's "an expensive filler," I could sell it for scrap. That would be somewhere around $85. Given that @Insider is opposed to net...
I am glad this coin has not fallen apart after 168 years. I agree that the planchet issue is probably a pre-strike lamination, but to listen him...
A bit of damage in just the right place to make it an 1853-O, micro mint mark variety. :shame:
I think it’s over graded as a VF-30.
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