It isn't even that rosy if you figure in the official inflation rate. It looks like 5 years ago the index was about 65000. With the official...
They have always stood behind their product, but they have only had a written guarantee of authenticity for the past three years. Maybe, maybe...
Yep, it's a 155. The die cracks confirm it.
Back then the mintmarks were punched into each die by hand so they tend to "wander" from one die to the next. The size of the mintmark can vary...
Johnny's coin is a State II I think Marshal's coin is probably also a State II I do think see a trace of the misplaced denticals but no...
Why?
The banquet won't keep them at the show. Now that Sunday has been dropped they will be closing up on Friday and leaving early on Saturday if they...
Didn't want to toot my own horn. I did forget an important one though, Early Coins of America by Sylvester Crosby And I would combine that one...
Encyclopedia of United States Half Cents 1793 - 1857 by Walter Breen Encyclopedia of United States Large Cents 1793 - 1814 by Walter Breen...
Yes I know they are supposed to be wholesale prices, but when Retail is $1500 and there are less than a dozen uncs known, wholesale is NOT $150. :)
They were in America, they weren't in the United States yet. The New Hampshire pieces never went beyond the pattern stage and Independence was...
Is the character in Atlas Shrugged spelled Galt? I took the Gault reference to the creater of the encased postage as an assumed and thought you...
It would be almost impossible for there to be a WAM from the Denver mint after about 1997. By then the Denver die shop was in full operation and...
The 1793 is definitely an S-6. Can't see the 94 well enough but it is after the mid 40's
I always ignore price stickers on coins on eBay. Frankly I think the F-12 they have on that must be a net grade because that coin has a lot more...
Sure you can. Frankly the statement that it is filled due to wear is nonsense. I have never seen a D mintmark whose center was filled in so that...
They probably do. They know the First Spouse coins aren't selling well so it is mostlikely that they coin them in small batches. It is very...
If they had done color plates he could have, he owned it.
Die chip the center spike in the die that formed the depression in the center of the D on the coin has broken off. Not uncommon.
I've seen Longacre doubling on Indianheads as late as 1907. It probably continued through the end of the series in 1909. I will agree that it is...
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