A relevant question is, who was the underbidder? It took two to tango to get to that price.
Watered down scotch tastes a little like beer. I'm a scotch, burbon and wine man myself. I always found beer to be too heavy, but a light beer...
I think that the coin is attractive, but I’m not a big fan of the spotty toning that is on the obverse from 9 to 12 k. When you are paying this...
I love this post. She and her partner have trashed me repeatedly on the PCGS site. I once bought a $50,000 coin from them and placed a five figure...
The trouble is if it’s intentional, the interest goes out of it for most collectors. It certainly would for me. To be technical, the 1955...
There is a downside. I have only used the NGC restoration service once. It was to remove an ugly blue colored spot from the Indian’s throat on an...
Yes, I don't like holders with staples at all. Coins and sharp edges do not mix. I used to use the staped 2X2 cardboard holders for Civil War...
I cherry picked three 1864 Small Motto Two Cent Pieces when I was dealer. It seems like cherrypicking the 1864-L cents would be even easier given...
The scratch is in an out of the way place. It looks like a nasty staple scratch which is a no-no on a straight graded coin.
Sometimes you can see the difference. It need be no more than a spot in the field that is no bigger than a pinhole. Other times you can’t tell the...
The old DCAMs from the 1960s and before can be a lot pricier because they are a lot rarer. Only the coins that are DCAM on both sides count. The...
I have mostly seen MS70 treated coins in pictures, and what I have seen, I have not liked. This coin is maxed out right where it is. If you play...
The modern Proof coins, with their consistent DCAM surfaces, are truly lovely. There is a guy at my local club who submits these coins in slabs to...
The first picture shows too many marks on the neck and hair to be an MS-65. If that is an MS-65, then the 1864-L Cent I posted earlier in the day...
Yea, PCGS has no respect for NGC grades 99% of the time. When you ship a coin in an NGC holder to PCGS for the same grade, you have 2.99 strikes...
MS-63, Brown
When I was in high school, I dreamed of completing a set of Indian Cents. One of the key coins in that collection was the 1864-L bronze Indian...
This a tough one. If you remove the crust, there might not be much left. Sometimes things are so far gone that authentication is not possible.
That 1872-S Half Dollar looks too nice to be only graded AU-53. I wonder what was going on the grading room when that happened? And yes, that is...
I would go with the best coins you can afford. You need to go more slowly, buying the pieces you like, rather pushing things and filling holes all...
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