After August 1, 1834, the earlier $2.50 and $5.00 gold coins that U.S. mint had issued prior to that date were subjected to another round of...
Greetings, "fellow prisoners!" Today I had one of my two days “out of captivity,” to go food shopping. I wore a mask as the president has asked...
I knew a dealer, now deceased, who claimed he saw a 1964-D Peace Dollar. The story, as he told it to me, was kind of shadowy. One of his customers...
The way the Federal Government is creating and spending money, we had best hope the NMP people are right. I have strong doubts, but I went to...
The photos make it look like an Unc. to me. It's got too frost inside the letters and devices.
Greetings fellow inmates. I't about 80 degrees here in Florida, and I spent the afternoon by my pool in the backyard, well away from other humans,...
The die variety is Cohen - 10. It is the most common Crosslet 4, Stems variety and is rated as an R-1. The diagnostic is the crosslet 4 and the...
Sorry, no. If you find one in the original wrappers that has been stored in a consistent environment with, respect to temperature and humidity,...
PR-67, Red
The sharpness qualifies as a classic Fine. The "grade-flaters" push this to VF now-a-days. Unfortunately there is environmental damage.
It has too much wear to be an EF-40 unless you are an advocate of "grade-flation" which too many people are. I would grade it somewhere around...
Ultimately Jarvis was unable to get European investors to fund his project, and he defaulted on his contract. Once his employees learned what was...
Greetings fellow inmates! I just learned to day the governor is going to make our house arrest offcial. I hope that I will be able to go out for...
The Red Book states that the 1934 Maryland commemorative half dollar was made to resemble the Maryland colonial Lord Baltimore coinage from the...
No to me. I don't like most of them, but some collectors admire specific counterstamps.
Pr-64 because of what appears to be some cloudy spots.
I am not an expert, and I mostly collect colonial and Confederation coins by type. The value of Connecticut is determined by the state of...
They are nice for what they are for they are, but in the future you might want more as advance as a collector. You are right to look for “hard”...
Since our "prison sentence" just got extened for another month, it's time to dust another old article. I hope you like it. In 1933...
With no hesitation, the 1955 doubled die cent. It's a classic and there is no question as to what it is. When you need to 10X to see the doubled...
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