Dan Sedwick - speiclaizes in Spanish colonial coinage. Wrote the Practical Book of Cobs and has consulted and helped with many other books on the...
He is talking about people who are considered to be the authority regarding the coins they specialize in.
Really ? Kind of odd then don't you think that the Feds arrested Nothaus, confiscated all of his coins, and also arrested some of those trying to...
I think you just need to adjust your white balance. I'd say the coin is AU53.
No I'm not, I answered it -
Correct, the coin is perfectly normal in all respects.
As he said Carl - he used Q-Tips as well. That ha dmore to do with it than anything.
OK - let's examine a scenario. Just about everybody knows that when the US Mint sold older (pre 1950) individual Proof coins that they wrapped...
Well, depending on how you want define what constitutes a coin - yes and no. Mills were absolutely produced, and used every single day during...
You are asking 2 different questions. As stated already, for question 1 the size of the pic will vary depending on the distance from the camera to...
Fair enough, and I would agree. So say you pick each one of the examples you listed 1 at a time. Where would you go to look up the value for each...
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So these boxes you want to use, am I correct in assuming that you are going to place numerous coins in each one, loose, so the coins bang around...
The reason you can't grade every series the same is really quite simple - it's because they are not the same. Nothing about them is the same, they...
See if this helps - The coin is definitely not polished, cd would know. Not sure it would go DMPL though, the reverse doesn't seem to have the...
I suppose the easiest way to think of it is this - it's a giant circle. Any given coin at some point is sold by a collector to a dealer. That coin...
It doesn't have anything to do with the new cent. It has to do with the fact that the Federal Reserve is buried under a mountain of existing coins...
That all depends on who you are buying from. The coin show I attended on 1/31/09 you could buy ASE's all day for $15 each. And they were in as...
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Unless it is damaged. Damaged coins are not gradeable.
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