That has been the way of the less than ethical dealer world for longer than I have been a collector. Buy in one grade; sell at a higher one.
They must have missed this aspect of their website. They put the announcement on the Coin Dealer Newsletter. It will be hard to back off from...
I used to mark certified coins that were solid or very nice for the grade “PQ.” This was before CAC existed. I cracked the coins I thought would...
Paul Mansfield designed the 1933 Franklin Roosevelt and the 1961 John F. Kennedy inaugural medals, a remarkable 28 year spread in time. [ATTACH]...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Walker Hancock Diameter 70 mm Mintages 3 in gold, 1,033 in silver, 21,705 in bronze Notes: President Eisenhower...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Jo Davidson Diameter 45 mm Mintages 10 in gold, 2 in silver, 3,500 in bronze Notes: Artist Jo Davidson captured...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Paul Manship Diameter 76 mm Mintages 2 in gold, 4 known in silver,1,500 in yellow bronze, 50 in finished bronze...
I went to the trouble to do this exhibit, which might never be shown, so I'm going finish this out with a few of my favorite pieces. Herbert...
I agree. Auctions are often the pits. You almost always get driven too high if you win and get tired of losing. I hate buyers' fees. People say,...
It all depends upon which dealers you lose. There are few dealers I will never miss is they didn't darken the doors again.
I don't think the Summer FUN is that much of a comercial show. The Winter FUN is another story. Of course the collectors they bus in might fool me...
2 inches or 50.5 mm
Looks like an MS-65 by today’s standards. The reed make at the bottom of the cheek might take it to MS-64+.
Rating presidents has become political. Historians now give Grant high marks because he broke the KKK in the South. But then you ask, "What about...
It was one of his trademarks. Here is a campaign piece from his 1904 presidential campaign. [ATTACH] Franklin D. Roosevelt idolized his cousin,...
He failed after he left the presidency too. He got involved in a Wall Street investment firm with a “Bernie Madoff” type character who ripped off...
This is one of two U.S. Grant tokens that were known to have been issued during the Civil War. Although Grant is known to history as the premier...
[ATTACH] It took me about a year to find one of these medals that I liked. Finding one is not that hard, if you know the token and medal dealers,...
The Philadelphia Mint issued this small medal (31 mm) during the Civil War to celebrate the fact that the mint personnel had taken an oath of...
I don't collect any of the medals "that almost were." I have stuck to the official pieces in bronze, except for the silver Kennedy piece, which is...
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