Last week one of our members was pleased to announce that he had just joined that select group of collectors who have a Julius Caesar portrait...
The classic claim was that newspaper writers characterized the small eagle as looking weak. That may well have been correct. The 1794-5 eagle...
Yes, but there is always greed and ignorance factor. If they can get a sucker to pay a couple thousand dollars for this "new certified discovery...
It's bad idea for a couple of reasons. First, if you have to pay him or her, it's waste of money. I am pretty sure that it's bad. Second, if it...
There is no way that we are going back to the gold standard unless the artificial price of gold was set at some 7 or 8 figure amount per ounce....
I was hoping that it might be a sea savage piece from the reverse, but the obverse looks to be an obvious cast copy. I don't have any sea salvage...
Within the last decade.
And guys like the Hunt Brothers, who speculated in silver and silver futures, managed to go from billionaires to bankruptcy. They took some other...
The mint tried to hire experienced coin makers from Europe, but all of those efforts fell through. The first mint ended up becoming an amateur...
The same reason why those who handle a lot of valuable assets have to post bonds or get insurance today. If money or valuables turn up missing,...
Great write-up! You go into far more detail than I do. As a generalist “helicopter collector,” I have pennies from most of the kings that you...
These three coins are among the three most difficult to find U.S. type coins. The mintages were very low, and many coins were melted because they...
I think you are better off, and I hope the reverse works out for you too. Believe it or not, that will tone down. I owned an 1800 half cent that...
I bought that piece at a Baltimore show about four years ago. I didn't go there looking for it because I had the other variety of the 16 star 1797...
The prices for the 1796 Quarter have gone up a lot since the 1980s. The day I bought the one you see above, there was another one on the same bid...
According to what I have read, he had a smaller hoard of 1796 half dollars too.
Prices were different in those days. It cost less than $500. When I was a dealer, I had one in an MS-62 holder that was slightly nicer than that...
I completed that set a few years ago. They are quite impressive.
This IS NOT an error coin. If you send it in thinking you are going to get that, you are wasting your money, but I guess there is no use trying to...
The latest pictures make the coin look completely different. Now it looks like one of these old dollars that have not been fooled with. I would...
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