The problem with the little price tags is the variability in the price of some items... I've been helping a family member through this exact...
They had 'em $3 a roll at this weekend's coin show...
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Uh... wow... you guys are so much quicker than me... I saw that on several as I was choosing which ones to put in the 7 air-tites I had... kept...
Okay, so the 1909-S VDB was fake... the 1916-D was fake... now the crossover! It looks like a dime, it's worth a penny! The 1943-S BU cent...
Well, so many folks here gave their opinions (and some did a fair amount of work detailing the photos and explaining what they saw) about the...
i say go for it.
When I took them to the dealer who sent them to ANACS, he warned me he didn't like either coin. I said, "even the dime? I felt pretty good about...
Oh, I'm definitely keeping them in the family (and marking their holder so future folks will know). I really appreciate the critical eye the...
Got both the VDB 1909-S and the 1916-D back from ANACS today... both altered mintmarks. Oh well, back to looking up Morgans and Mercuries. In...
[IMG] I think that's a stretch... I think an altered mintmark is possible. It was sent off for authentication last week, so we'll find out in a...
Ooops - looks like a meant Xylol which is the Lowe's version of Xylene which is a solvent used for thinning paint etc.
Not much on this coin. On the obverse, you can see light areas around the curls of the hair and around the nose and so on. Those spots are a...
"Counterfeit" may not be the right word. It may mean the date or mintmark appears to be altered.
Each step was very short - less than a minute. I got some rubber gloves at Lowe's so I wouldn't get the solvents on my hands, and I held the coin...
So I've started wondering: (and this is scientific curiosity... the dark bronze color doesn't bother me) if I repeated this process, would the...
niiiice close-ups! well done
So I pulled out an 1832 Half Penny (didn't know it at the time) that had been stored in a 2x2 in a pvc pocket in a binder in a box in a safe for...
Found a half dozen of these coins today. My guidebook says there were 200,000 minted, and 100,000 of those destroyed to make the 1968 Olympic...
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