Here is Christian Gobrecht's original design with No Stars on the Obverse. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here is one from some years later. Robert...
Yes, the $1,500 price was listed in the 16th edition of "The Red Book." The book is dated 1963 on the cover, but it was introduced in the spring...
The GSA had dollars that had been in circulation and had seen a lot of use, and they had dollars in mint sealed bags that had not seen the light...
The GSA holders without "Uncirculated" on them sometimes made the coins harder to sell. Hence you heard the cracking sound. Also albums were a lot...
From what I have understood, these GSA dollars were graded by some college students the GSA hired. They gave them a quickee course in grading and...
Yes, these toned coin bring more money than they should, and they encourage coin doctors to ruin coins that were okay before they started messing...
Links don't pose a problem if they are some place like Great Collections or eBay. The trouble can start when the link is to somewhere that is...
Given the fact that the "We" is weak, I would give it a VF-30, but that's the old grade before "grade-flation" took over. I sold several of these...
When you have the chance, you should down load a picture and post it here so that everyone can see the counterfeit before it gets taken down on...
I have been a collector for over 60 years. At first, I didn’t care for certified coins, but now it’s about all I buy for U.S. coins. I still...
From what I have read, Augustus got better with age. One might say the same thing about Brady. Here is my Augustus coin, a denarius. The charging...
I am probably wrong, but if it is 25 pence, that is about 32 cents in U.S. money. When I took a trip to England years ago, a pound didn’t buy much...
Demonitized with a collector value of about $3. It has no melt value. In conversations with a London coin dealer, he told me they almost never...
I have heard that the Chinese can legally counterfeit anything that was minted before 1948. That dates from their revolution. The coins after that...
Yes, Whitman calls that series “Red Books,” which is confusing. I guess it’s a marketing thing. I generally buy one edition of those books and...
It is an 1804 half eagle. As such, it is not worth anything close to $100,000. It’s probably at the low end of 5 figures. It’s a nice coin, but...
I don't know what you mean by a "population census" in the Red Book. The Red Book only lists mintages and prices with the number known for some...
Cameo Proof coins from the 1936 to 1942 era are quite scarce. The pieces that make to "Cameo" designated holders might be rare. I bought this 1939...
@GoldFinger1969, your observation about the Matte Proof 1909 cent is exactly the reaction collectors had toward them back then. They didn’t like...
I can’t see enough in the picture to know what to buy.
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