I have read the vampires have odd looking fingers. She would definitely suck the life out of you bank account if you gave her the chance.
MS-64, FBL. The scratch in the right field takes it out of the MS-65 or better class.
I don't want to up stage the OP, but at the risk of doing that, here is the S-21 that was in the Dan Holms collection. I think that the 1794,...
You were allowed to keep $100 in gold, if you could have afforded to do it during the Great Depression, but most people did not realize that.
FAKE Compare it with the real one, which is on the left: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Not give too many clues, but the "C. GOBRECHT F" is too big on the...
Here is one chapter: Vitellius Lived 15 to 69, Ruled 69 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Denarius of Vitellius, Obverse, A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG TRP,...
Without a desk top I can’t post pictures until the mid morning, so I am out of this one.
I started with the 12 caesars, moved to the adoptive cearars and now have started on the second and third centuries. Ironically the emperors who...
I got rid of the thing years ago. I bought when I was fairly young collector, and it was a pain the butt, a real piece of junk. I buy books for...
I have collected these books for the pricing information they contain, and to see how collectors of generations ago viewed some of the coins. I...
I have not had much luck buying any of the other three gold pieces. Even the last half sovereign, which was not even a cameo, brought moon money...
Here is another article from the archives. I wrote this in 2014. I've been working on a very general collection of English coinage. My goal has...
Unless you are an expert, you NEVER buy key, frequently counterfeited dates like the 1916-D Mercury Dime, uncertified, even you can see the coin...
It is natural, but those "carbon spots" would kill it for me.
It is a smooth AU with no big marks. It remains to be seen if it gets a straight grade if it were to be certified. The luster is dull, and the...
A shipwreck is a bit different. Those are usually the result of an act of God, unless it's human error, such as two ships colliding. 9/11 was an...
With a lot of auctions, not much of anything happens until the moment the item comes up for bidding. Then the numbers go into orbit, especially if...
Here is the piece in my collection which is NGC graded MS-64. [ATTACH] The man depicted on the obverse is John Pell who owned the land upon...
The best thing you can do with it is to educate others about how to spot counterfeits.
I have a complete set set of Red Books (not all of the varieties) from the first edition to 2020. The book was a better “pulse of the market”...
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