Short answer is "no". Specimen sets and single strikes were issued privately, usually to VIP guests, in their own cases (usually a red box similar...
I spend the RCM $20 for $20 coins all the time at my Starbucks... they like them!!
Only to someone who is really looking for one. Most are bought and sold with no premium. If your coin is a mint state red-brown (RB) 1944, the...
"World coins", I agree with you. However, Canadian (and NFLD coins), I disagree with you. So do the owners of the finest NFLD and Canadian silver...
Interesting to see it toned so nicely on both sides...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with sending a mint state NFLD coin to PCGS. Just bear in mind that they are stricter on bronze coins than...
This might be true for circulated grades, but when it comes to mint state bronze coins (NFLD or Canada), I, and others (including the top two PCGS...
Hard to tell from photographs, but yours also looks like the "map" variety (chromium plating on the dies have flaked off - Hans Zoell termed the...
I have collected NFLD one cent coins for quite some time. My opinion is blunt, based on experience with both grading companies. Circulated coins...
Do teddy bears count?? ;)[ATTACH]
After the year 2000 (except for a small run in 2006), Canadian 5-cent coins are struck on multi-ply Ni-Cu plated steel. You are looking at rust...
Hey Dave, I just thought I would drop a line to say 'hello'...
Chris, could it have evolved, as the item being 'struck through' was flattening out??
I just got some error coins back from PCGS, and I was admiring this one (bought it in 2014). http://www.pcgs.com/cert/32839554 Then, I added to...
I purchase nickel composition 50c and nickel dollars from coin dealers in Canada. In some respects, I am their bank, except I get to go through...
Picked up this one recently. First 1984 Cartier clip I have seen... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Wow... 11 pages in, and as an error collector, I still cannot figure what on earth the error(s) is/are.... :banghead:
That 1967 10-cent looks like a specimen strike to me...
I could not have said this in better words... it is just a die chip, I can't imagine this having any premium at all...
I don't think I have seen a PCGS holder and label quite like that one, with the information on the reverse, upside side (coinage).
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