Agreed with Indianhead. There shouldn't be a big mark up. But, that is assuming that you are only looking for the unc, and not the proofs or...
Forget Breen on the Buffs, he is out of it. There is no DDO listed in Wexler or Lange. Looks to be strike/machine doubling on the date....
nice finds!
Eduard For toning there are two excellent methods: 1) Wayte Raymond album pages, the old one with the mylar strips in individual pages (as...
Ben: Good luck with everything. :thumb:
hmmm... do you have a picture of the reverse?
Eduard: I wuld take the coin and put it in an old brown coin envelope. The sulphur should tone this up, in about 5 years or so.
Doug: 197 to go!
It is probably ligit, but... who cares?
It has to be the 1893 S, otherwise why would it be here? easy, it real it would be slabbed.
I have to agree, many older pieces have been cleaned at sometime or another. In fact, it was acceptable at one time. However, there is a big...
Frank, I am not sure about the doctoring, but that 09 VDB has a nice deep dig in the forehead.
Noost: I knew the answer to your question, but, honestly did not know why. Further research showed: Full text of "1. U.S. Mint's...
What Condor said. When there is an added premium to the sale price of the coin, it usually goes to a valid 501(c)3, a not for profit...
As far as early pieces, such as the 3 centers (both silver & nickel) calshes are fairly common. For grading, I believe it is ignored. For...
I have a couple of holed pieces. I got them in a lot of miscl. holed items. Hmmmm... About time to move those out, I think.
F-12. Not bad.
Harry: THANKS A BUNCH! Wow, who'd have thought that off by 2 would be close enough! Thanks a lot for the contest. And, I'll take the...
very pretty!
they say "In around 2006, an audit of the U.S. vaults revealed the presence of about 5,000 pieces of vintage gold coinage, and it was decided that...
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