Because they had more silver than they did gold ? There's all kinds of reasons various countries did what they did, and do, with coinage. Why did...
If that "streak" is on the slab, and it appears it is, then a 62 is an accurate grade IMO. And had it not been for the adjustment marks I don't...
You can find slabs autographed by all sorts of people, from the coin designers to politicians. Even Gerald Ford autographed slabs.
It wasn't ICE. "Victor England Jr., senior director of CNG, confirmed that several officials who identified themselves as representatives of the...
OK, that's the second time you've mentioned that, and you've got me confused. I just checked Heritage for MS66 Lincolns. There's 10 pages with 50...
You can go to www.numismaster.com and look up anything you could find in Krause. You can't see the values, but you can see the mintage numbers ;)
Possible, but it really doesn't look like it.
Think I'll go 58 on the dime. As for half eagle - a lot of adjustment marks, top to bottom on the bust, and those to me should impact the grade as...
That's why you use a combination, what you don't find one place you'll find it elsewhere. C'mon Dick, you know as well as I do that I was just...
Fingerprints do affect the grade because they have large impact on the eye appeal of the coin. And eye appeal is the 2nd most important of the...
Did you read the article ? The ownership of these coins, and prior sales, is well known and documented for the past 50 years. And for the more...
From what I have seen the values listed in Coin World are pretty dang high. Same for the values you find in Numismatic News or any other coin mag....
I'll agree, you are not going to find some of the more inexpensive coins on the auction sites, some others you will find them. But that still...
Hmmmm - thought that fad died a quick death over 10 years ago. Guess somebody has revived it again. Let me ask you this - do you think the...
Anyone who has ever read Randy's articles on grading coins, and there are a lot of them, and then compared his grading standards to the coins that...
Yes, they will dip coins if you ask them to. They have even been known to dip coins when you don't ask them to.
It all depends on how easy they are to get. The thing that drives prices and always has is availability and popularity. It doesn't have anything...
I sure wouldn't use ebay. But use any of the major auction houses realized price archives. That includes Heritage, Teletrade, Stacks, etc.
I'm not even sure there are any US laws that pertain to this. The whole concept is being driven by the other countries, not the US. It is the...
Inclined to agree about the haze on Proofs of that time period. Of course it's not just the Ikes but pretty much Proofs of all kinds.
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