I had wanted a Proof Trade Dollar for a long time. The pieces were always too high in my opinion. I finally sprang for this one, which cost less...
MS-61 This one is graded MS-61. [ATTACH]
My father paid $10 for this 1853 cent at a fea market that was tied to a country auction. It's an important coin to me because it's the last piece...
It might seem that all of the price increases are simply inflation, but they aren’t. Motor vehicles are better now than they were back in the day....
That’s a great buy @ $26. The coin is a classic EF-40. With “grade-flation, it’s now an EF-45 on its way to the AU numbers.
It might be because sports cards and comic books are graded on the 10 point scale.
A little too high is one thing. I too will pay a premium for coins I like, especially now that I am old and not worried too much about reselling...
As a frequent attendee at the major coin shows, you get to know that some dealers always overcharge. I don’t know how they stay in business, but...
Let’s hope it’s enough planchets to avoid creating an end of the series rarity. All we need is another mint run lottery, like the privy mark...
The merchants will supply them, given the mark+up.
Unfortunately, yes. The end of the cent will terminate a date series that has run from 1793 to date, with the exception of 1815.
I’m sure the treasury will retire them when the get the chance, as they do with all worn out and obsolete coinage.
Bret Bear reported it tonight on Fox.
One could buy an old Red Book and look it up. A 1795 silver dollar was worth $25 in 1948, or so. When I was a kid collector in the 1960s they were...
One should be able to smell a rat when the coin in question is worth 400 times the asking price. Yes, the crooks suck, but buyers need to do some...
I want both, and I am willing to wait and pay them. Early on I considered purchasing a denarius of the emperor Vitellius (ruled for three months...
Probably some sort of a crude bezel. Why would anyone buy it? The nice ones are “dirt common.” Many years ago I spotted a silver quarter that...
Well that might be rare in that holder. Few people would waste their money on getting an item like that into a PCGS slab. To date 26 have been...
They frequently seem to be on eBay. It seems that just about every counterfeit piece of junk attracts one or more bidders’ attention.
Adding to the above, even if we knew how many dies were shipped, we don’t know if they were used. For example, Three Dollar Gold Piece dies were...
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