I hope enough people comment in the journals and coin periodicals such that PCGS is forced to defend their grade. It's one coin, maybe it will...
No argument with any of your choices, Pub, I like 'em all and have some of them. Here are my 3 choices: (1) SAINT GAUDENS DOUBLE EAGLES by...
Excellent points....you wonder if the rest of the 1933 Saints were out there if this coin would rate MS65. In PCGS' defense....if those marks on...
MS-63.
Most of the patterns for the Saints and Indian Heads stayed with higher-ups at the Philly Mint like Charles Barberg.
Huh....you're saying that all those were created for a few dealers ? I'm only familiar with the 1913 Liberty Nickels and I thought they were a...
Buy 'em both ! :D
Or The Avengers....:D
I hear they were planning to invade Egypt 5 or 6 years later and this Korean thing happened.....:D Imagine the frustration.... "Damn, we're...
They tried to get the coin back....but he was an ally in this little thing called World War II..... and they decided to prioritize defeating this...
Great story, Sal.......:D I was given Mint Sets and coin rolls in the 1970's for birthday and Christmas presents. When I overpaid one year's...
Yes, and that's the mentality I was trying to show existed in my posts....there was a STRONG hatred of guys like Switt and even a dislike for...
If anybody is into Indian Head Eagles, this catalog may be of interest:...
Yup, and remember.....this license wasn't known until Fenton's lawyer (Burke, who also represented the Langbord's later on) uncovered the Treasury...
How about....they're idiots ? :D They should have just placed the seized coins in museums or added them to the Smithsonian Collection. Instead,...
CPLradar, we are just going to have to agree to disagree.:D I enjoyed the back-and-forth: hard fought, but civil and respectful. I want to...
Nobody thought the coins would be destroyed at the time otherwise they would have asked higher-ups why spend $$$ minting coins that will be melted...
Actually, the 1933 Saints started to be struck on March 2nd, 1933 -- during the Hoover Administration. The governments records on 1933 Saints...
Oh, they were never MONETIZED !! Like every other coin other than the "Farouk" coin: :D [ATTACH] The government came up with the monetization...
Source ? They were never circulated, so how could they be pulled ? :D
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