Even if they are impaired, you can’t lose when you get them for face value.
I think that MS-64 is too generous for this coin. My grade would be MS-63. When I was dealer, the grading from Franklin Half Dollars was all over...
This one has great color and surfaces, but it has rim nicks. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
From what I have read about Bryan, he was well-informed when he served two terms in Congress in the early 1890s. Then he got into presidential...
Yep, U.S. coins used to be made out of silver. I am old enough to remember spending them. You could also go to a bank and exchange paper dollars...
I was thinking low Mint State when I saw the obverse, but the reverse is definitely AU. I would say that it is an AU-58, but a lot of collectors...
I don’t understand the market for circulated 1885-CC dollars. I know that the supply of them is limited, but how can you justify spending that...
The large cents from this era are not easy to find for most collectors. The half cents are tougher still. Half cents like this were not often seen...
Thanks for the list of attractions in Canton, Ohio. I saw all of them about four years ago.
These pieces sell for $125 to $135, but the trick is to find pieces that are not bent up too badly. McKinley was a pretty good president, but he...
I was surfing the net looking for a red enamel Al Smith donkey pin when I happened upon this site. For those who would like to know what I want,...
The doubled date on the 1864-L Cent has been a known variety for a long time. I had one when I was in high school in the mid 1960s. It had EF...
I would speculate that the “1873-S Dollar” is a fairly recent Chinese fake. The Chinese use that “shoe polish” toning technique to simulate age....
It’s made of 90% silver and that’s all it’s going for it. There is little numismatic value there.
It’s not necessarily “the grading system;” it’s the “over grading” system that the third party graders use. I showed my Wreath Cent to some EAC...
My Wreath Cent is also a Sheldon 11c. These coins were made on poor planchets. My piece has the makings of a lamination, but I think that it will...
That works for most coins the modern era, but not for many ancients, British hammered pieces and tokens. Some pieces are always stronger on one...
If it has a copper center, as all copper-nickel clad coins do, it's not silver. The core on the 40% silver clad pieces was 20% silver and 80%...
Unfortunately, the answer is most collectors find these coins dull, boring and ugly. Many of them were poorly made, and the designs were trite and...
This is a medal, not a coin. Believe it or not, the piece that Congress voted to award to Zachary Taylor was made of sold gold. [ATTACH]
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