I have always thought of “POP 1” as the highest graded coin of its kind that stands alone with no others in the same grade. I have not thought of...
The centering dot can be anything from a tiny spot that you can mostly see with a 10X glass on a high grade (AU or better) coin to a big dot that...
Agreed. The new Word wants to add more dashes than fourth grader.
Spelling and foreign languages have always been my worst subjects. I plead guilty. Whatever the spell checker approves, I often accept.
Can't blame you on that one, especially when most people can't tell the difference and sometimes the graders fall into that category.
It’s easy to get the late date Kennedy half dollars in DCAM and Ultra CAM because they are all made that way. The trick is to find the earlier...
It amazing, but the Chinese will take an absolute nothing, common coin, like a 1908 Indian Cent and counterfeit it. I guess time and labor are so...
The key for me is the expense of the set. A set of State Quarters has a hundred coins in it if you collect the Philadelphia and Denver Mint...
It has the earmarks of the correct counterstamp, the wear patterns on it are consistent with the rest of the coin and there is no flat spot on the...
The conventional copper-nickel alloy that is in the run of the mill nickel seldom turns this color. When a War Nickel has been out of circulation...
The most famous holder for the five piece was copper frame. This device had a glass front with copper frame around the edge and velvet lined...
In 1915 the City of San Francisco hosted the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The official reason for holding the exposition in San...
Here is an 1848 CAL. I bought a few years ago. This piece is graded PCGS AU-55. When I was shopping for this coin, there was an AU-58 in the...
Here is an Edward I penny. I bought this one for $20 some years ago. It might be worth $30 now. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I bought this one for less...
How many times do you need to post the same coin? Your new obverse photo is harder to use for attribution purposes than the previous one. The...
The "D" stands for you are Down in the Dumps if you buy this thing.
There is no reason we can point to for the rarity. I have to look up the deliveries for the 1800 and 1801. The 1801 is a rare date in its own...
The estimated survival for the 1792 half disme is around 300 pieces. The 1802 half dime population is 35 or so. There are Red Book half dime...
And I am biased because the 1823/2 Quarter would not fit in my collection at all. I only collect quarters by type.
A lot of these early coinage mintage are based upon delivery records and guesses. I’m using round numbers off the top of my head, but the mintage...
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