After looking at it I am 99+% convinced it is a modern cast fake.
I didn't say I had 1902 coins, I said I have a full set of the 1902 CURRENCY. There were no 1902 coins.
Ooh Conders in silver, tough pieces. I've only got three of them. (Most off metal Conders are rare. In addition to my silver I have three in...
John McCloseky has done some pretty good work on the varieties for those coins. Some of it was published in the ANS Coinage of the Americas...
I would not consider it to be pushy as long as I was asked politely and they explained that it was so paypal would release the funds to them. I...
Would a major TPG risk their thirty to fifty million dollar a year business by stealing a submitters two hundred dollar coin? A thousand dollar...
Either a few 1794 cents in the $300 to $600 range or try and find a really cruddy 1793 S-1 for $2000.
Mel Fisher had an agreement with Florida, negotiated ahead of time, to give them 25% of the treasure. Then when he actually found it the State of...
And eBay pulled the auction.
No, the * means exceptional eye appeal, not that it is high end for the grade. No when PCGS announced it as "THE BIG ONE" it was announced that...
Probably quite a few. I firmly believe that when the graders find themselves falling behind on their daily quota they just start doing bodybag,...
It's not weird. When you signed up with ebay you agreed not to do off-ebay deals for items listed on ebay. And if ebay finds out you are doing...
What change do you want them to make? It looks fine to me.
Actually those are working models for his sculpture. The actual scupture is something closer to life size so maybe 10 foot high.
Silver and gold tend to have very strict tolerances, around 1% for gold and 1 to 1.5% when new and a little more as they wear. With US gold coins...
The Keeling Cocos coins are a very interesting series, and a very hard one to put together. Until the 2004 set came out even those collectors who...
Self slabber and one I haven't seen before. Oh well time to waste some more money on a piece of junk for the reference set. Oh great, he's...
The 1907 high relief was not economically feasible because it took multiple strikes to bring up the relief, possibly with re-annealing of the coin...
You are correct that obv 2 and 3 are the same obverse. You are correct that obv 3 is NOT a reworking of obv 2. Obv 2 is an overpolished obv 3...
Well he didn't have to....eBay did.
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