Well folks - as of yet JoeMoney has not claimed his prize :confused: I also sent him an email to try and let him know he won.
If you want to find coins in Vegas - your best bet is to go to the coin shops ;)
Small mistake there Metalman - the '76 silver clad half was issued in UNC and Proof, both with an S mint mark.
I'd phrase that a little differently cdb. I'd say your best bet is to learn about what you are trying to buy BEFORE you buy it. Then you will at...
Dealers charge whatever the market will bear. If they are offering the coins at that price and people are paying it - then that is what they will...
It doesn't cost $10 for the slab alone NOS. But it cost a good deal more than that just for the coin to go through the process at the grading...
The coin is damaged, so even if genuine and it likely is, most of the grading companies will not slab it. But you can send it to ANACS and they...
Here are the pics - [IMG] [IMG] I enhanced the pics as best I could but I'm afraid I can add little other than what Roy has already...
My thoughts are NO - it is not worth it. You would be paying essentially $2 each for quarters that you can find in circulation on a daily basis.
That's what they ARE doing.
Spider - Is this what you are asking ? Say you have 2 half dollars in hand - one of them is silver clad the other is not. Are you asking how...
I'm not sure what you mean - can you explain ?
For whatever it's worth - I believe both of those coins (posted below) have been harshly cleaned. These coins in those grades are quite common,...
Yes I have seen it many times. This occurs when a dealer places a price or inventory sticker of his own on the slab. Then if the sticker is...
I would grade the coin as MS63. NCI is mentioned in Conder101's book and I believe this example is what he lists as NCI 2. The company apparently...
If you will email me the pics - I will be happy to post them for you so that perhaps we can help.
Thanks for the kind words :D As for your question, and I can only answer in a general sense without going into great detail about each...
Common no, but it does happen.
The closing NY price of gold on Fri. March 18th, 2005 was - $438.80 as listed HERE And the CT member with the closest guess, either over or...
In all likelyhood the marks you are asking about were caused by the edges of a quarter. They are called bag marks and occur when one coin drops...
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