It looks like I am through with common date $20 and $10 gold coins. Their numismatic value is gone. I might buy some of the lower denominations...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I am still looking for an 1830 and an 1835 large cent.
The brown box Ike came in a plastic holder which was the same size as the GSA holder. This thing is an assembled fabrication.
It looks like a lottery to me. Yea, somebody will, or might get a $50 gold slug, but most people will get skinned. These guys are running a for...
PR-64, R&B. Sorry but I have a better one in my raw 1950 Proof set. When I bought that set off “the Boston bid wall” in the 1980s, the cent was...
Good move.
The Randel Hoard covers cents from 1816 to 1820. The 1818 and 1920 seem to be the most common dates. There are many die varieties within that...
Don't get too excited over the circular die crack. The Randal Hoard 1820 cents almost always have it. This one is an MS-65 R&B. [ATTACH]
The grade is no better than MS-63, unless you got a "gift."
When I started looking for the Proof coins from 1936 to 1942, I found that it was almost impossible to grade these coins from photographs. I had...
The switch from the lettered edge to the plain edge was during the last week of 1795. The lettered edge ‘95s were struck from October to late...
But cleaning marks affect the value negatively.
The marks on the reverse look like post mint cleaning lines to me, but it's hard to tell from a photograph. If they are polish lines, they would...
The 1798 Small Eagle reverse dollar is known with 13 or 15 stars on the obverse. This one is the more common 13 star variety. It's in a VF-35...
The edge lettering was pushed very deep into the coin and would be last to go. I find it really hard to believe that the lettering would gone...
I found date and mint mark collecting to be too much. It was the reason I was a type collector for a long time until I finished that set. When I...
I have been a bit of both. When I became a dealer, I sold my half cent die variety collection for seed money. Generally I hold coins for a long...
If you are forming an all mints Morgan Dollar type set, you have to have the 1921-D. It’s the only Denver Mint coin in the series.
Sorry, I don't think that it's genuine. My 1800 only grades Fine, and is not a great coin, but here it is. [ATTACH]
Lucky you!
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