Pr-64 because of what appears to be some cloudy spots.
I am not an expert, and I mostly collect colonial and Confederation coins by type. The value of Connecticut is determined by the state of...
They are nice for what they are for they are, but in the future you might want more as advance as a collector. You are right to look for “hard”...
Since our "prison sentence" just got extened for another month, it's time to dust another old article. I hope you like it. In 1933...
With no hesitation, the 1955 doubled die cent. It's a classic and there is no question as to what it is. When you need to 10X to see the doubled...
I would say no on the 1920 quarter. I had a 1917 Type 1 quarter that looked like that when I was a dealer, a decade + ago. PCGS bounced it back...
Grading services are part truth and part hype. Some servicesare all hype and no truth. When the customer gets what he or she wants, there is not...
Sometimes the marks you think are nicks are actually tiny flaws that were in the planchet before the coin was struck. The dies did not erase them...
In the 1870s, the mint director cited "the evil of having two sizes of gold dollars circulating at the same time." He made an effort to melt as...
A great many Type III gold dollars were used for jewelry. Over the last decade of their run, that was the primary use for them, along with...
When it comes to grades for the late date Type III good dollars, it often depends upon when it was graded and which company did the grading. I put...
1839-O half dollar? Yes
This is never been a coin of great interest to me. Given what I've read here, I'm glad I've stayed away from it. Sorry, but the OP counterfeit...
From what I understand, if you tried to use a gold piece to pay for something, and it was underweight, it was perfectly legal from the payee to...
What you order is what you see in the picture. What you get is probably something like this. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Check out the date. It is "a rare...
Through most of history, gold was usually reserved for wealthy people, successful merchants and royalty. My mother talked about getting a $2.50...
The number of immigrants may have changed the policy, but for the most part, U.S. gold and silver coins were traded based on their melt value, not...
The early half dollars had their value in the edge. In 1796 - 7 there was a courious little "1/2" on the reverse, but that feature disappeared...
There is a current thread called “Coins Without Denominations” currently close to the top of the list here. I thought that it might be interesting...
:stop: Somebody paid over $900 for THAT 1851 half cent! :greedy: That's worse than a burial; it's an implosion. It took at least TWO people with...
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