Well, one thing's for sure - even if it's a phony and should've been caught as such, once it's slabbed and can't be examined in hand, the odds of...
I've seen the abbreviations NT and AT used here - am I correct in presuming this is shorthand for "naturally toned" versus "artificially toned"?
There are some interesting threads right now dealing with the value and implications of coin certification. It occurs to me there's another aspect...
The TV show hucksters certainly want you to think so. Certainly for current and very modern coins, though, the expense of doing so is misspent if...
I just wanted to remark with respect to Postulate #1 that I personally can't discern the physical difference between coins graded 69 versus those...
I've been told and read some interesting takes on the collecting of modern (1982 onward) U.S. silver coinage (commemorative issues and, of course,...
One last posting on this topic from me. I received this in change perhaps a dozen years ago. Besides being rather crumpled, its appearance is...
Besides being well worn, this note leaves me cold from the standpoint of its design, which is too rigidly symetrical. The ink colors chosen are...
Not so bad as this example of WWI era German currency, which to my eye is utterly ponderous and totally lacking in aesthetic merit....
It's awfully hard sometimes to differentiate between just the slightest bit of high point wear on the one hand and a somewhat incomplete strike on...
There are legitimate Morgan varieties with improperly oriented reverses (ostensibly on account of a loose die that was able to rotate) - the...
This pair of "no motto" $1 silver certificates surfaced at my bank's local branch. They'd grade at the very low end of the scale, I'd reckon.
I've purchased some very nice sterling souvenir spoons off eBay. The advantage there is that you can search for a theme or subject matter that's...
World's Ugliest Morgan Contest Well, not really a contest since there's no prize here but for the acclaim of your fellow Coin Talkers that you...
Pretty heavily bagmarked, but the toning suggests to me that it's (technically speaking) uncirculated. But I'd add that back when the CC Morgans...
Revised & Additional Data I realized I'd made an error in measuring the diameters posted earlier in this thread, so the first four below...
Follow-up Here's a small sampling of what I'm talking about. I've weighed these in grains for a little better accuracy (the specified weight of...
That'd be my worry except that this seems to be the case with more than one of mine. They just don't seem uniform to the same degree that U.S....
This concerns the 19th century Mexican 8 Reales (also including the continuing Un Peso type of 1898-1909). How consistent do you find the actual...
Did your uncle recall what his winning bids were?
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