If you are buying key dates, you have to know how to spot the fakes, and you had better be good at it. With the Chinese getting better at their...
I have collected U.S., British and ancient Roman coins. I also have collected tokens, medals and some paper money. My feelings on certification...
Sorry, but the OP coin will be a bear to sell when the time comes. The trouble is, it has little eye appeal. The reverse is blah. The toning has...
The old ANACS did a fairly decent job with its grades, but it never got much respect from the a lot of the dealer community. At times it under...
The roughed-up cheek makes it an MS-62 at best. It’s not worth sending it in. A lot of the S-mint dollars from 1878 to 1881 have P-L or near P-L...
AU-58, probably in an MS-62 holder.
I gave it an 8. The Nickel Three Cent Piece is one of my least favorite series, but this coin is attractive with its unusual colorful toning. You...
Yes, the TPGs should have pictures posted of ALL of the coins that they have certified that are worth some amount, say $500 or more. Furthermore...
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According to Roger Burdette, the Proof dies that the mint used in this are were chromium plated. As they were used specks of metal came off of...
Or the S-Mint could be a counterfeit. There is no such thing as an unsearched roll, especially when it has a screw top.
I collect presidential campaign items from 1789 to date. That overlaps with the coins since many of the 19th pieces were tokens. In the 20th...
As some of you know, I am a “light weight” ancient imperial Roman coin collector. My current goal is to get one coin for each emperor up a date...
My guess is it does not say "Uncirculated" on the GSA holder. These coins were graded by mostly college studends who got a crash course on grading...
If you blow up the photo, you can see enough of the fake to know that it is a very poor copy, just like two I posted at the start of this thread....
Congress chartered the Second Bank of the United States in 1816 for a twenty year term. The bank became the object of President Andrew Jackson’s...
Over the years that I have observed them, the grades got sloppy during periods of hot markets. Maybe it was because lots of coins were sent in for...
When I photograph something, I sit with the coin in hand and work on the color to get a match. I also might take an angle shot to get more of the...
This is one area where I have had very little experence and have never owned coin from this era. All the Bust Dimes I have owned were from the the...
I will take "in hand" over any photograph you can show me. That even goes for a coin show with poor lighting. "In hand" allows you to experience...
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