What we see today is far from unprecedented. My collecting experience goes back to the Imperial Romans. The denarius was a thick silver coin...
And given the fact that the Chinese have done nothing to curb the export of counterfeit U.S. coins to our country, I will leave those gains on the...
Tiberius' neck appears to be a bit shorter, and his face looks to be more compact and younger. The neck issue might be because the dies ran off...
The term “tribute penny” gets thrown around a lot with respect to the Tiberius Denarius pieces. Is there a true tribute penny variety, or can it...
The early mint frequently made dies with the first two or three numbers in the date entered and added the last one or two digits when the die went...
The grading question is tricky. Remember that grading is an opinion, and opinions differ. Therefore trying to get compensation for grading is the...
Yes, these are World War II ration tokens. They also came in blue. Some people collect them by the letters that appear on either side of the “1.”...
The bright spot behind Lafayette on the reverse is a problem too. It looks like someone tried to scrape a spot in that location. Many Lafayette...
Business strike. I don't see the sharpness that one would expect from a Proof. Here are a couple of examples. 1895 Proof Quarter [ATTACH]...
Yes, the current mint director is collector hostile. He's all in for the dealers and speculators and totally disinterested in collectors' concerns.
Buying Proof sets from the mint at the issue price of $2.10 was a profitable activity in the early to mid 1950s. People began to notice this, and...
I have heard many collectors say that a hole is the worst of all numismatic defects.
Try Google on these two sources: Tom French US Americana Anderson Auctions The founder recently passed on, but the auctions continue. The next...
That coin has been in a dealers’ inventory for a long while. It is a plate coin from one of the Overton books, but it has a scratch in the obverse.
My father’s 1957 Nash Ambassador Super made it to 120,000 miles. I don’t remember him doing all of maintenance that @Inspector43 mentioned. The...
It's been my experience that cars do last longer now with proper maintenance. In the old days a car with 100,000 miles, and it was toast. Now they...
It sounds like you are confusing dipping with cleaning, and it's not the same thing. A cleaned coin has had medal moved around and might be...
No, and that's why that type was a hole in my type set for many years. I passed on one with a hole it @ $9,000 that had more detail than that...
My 1959 set has the same insert message although the printing was a bit more formal. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Edited say: I just checked...
Here is an example of a Civil War token that just sold for over $1,500 in a Heritage auction. It is the John Mathews soda water piece. I wrote an...
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