I just got this 1883 dime today. [ATTACH]
And occasionally amusing. LOL!
The things that I look for when I pick a Morgan dollar is the cheek and obverse fields. If there are any large gashes or heavy bag marks on the...
All of the price guides online or in print just can not keep up with the actual market for their published prices. It is impossible. If many of...
The photograph of that die shows a damaged die not a die worn from wear. A worn die will not be scratched or gouged. Wear occurs over a period of...
Pictures of the reverses of the coins are available upon request. I can only post so many here. I am an ANA life member #3175. All coins have a...
Landis was offered a $30.00 harmonica in trade for it. How rude was that?
Rust and die wear are not the one and the same. Die wear is the loss of detail caused by the use of the die. Rust, or more appropriately...
Capital Plastics makes a variety of holders for sub sets. The two most popular for the Morgan dollars is their All Mints holder which comes two...
Thank you for posting these great images of the pitting 19Lyds. I just don't have the equipment to take such pictures. Apparently this coin is not...
Traz, I checked out your type set at PCGS, awesome! Though they are all beautiful coins I especially liked the three 3 cent silver pieces. A great...
Good point. But, if it was something on the die those areas would not be raised, there would be depressions in the coin by that contamination...
Bruce, I have no history on this coin spoon. I bought it at a local flea market and the couple didn't any recollection of where they got it. The...
The picture doesn't really show it very well but I have seen coins struck from rust pitted dies and the raised roughness of these areas look...
I have an MS 1924 Peace dollar with a die crack from the back of the neck level with the T in TRVST along the base of the neck and out into the...
OOPS, I put this posting is the wrong thread. It should have been in with the Error Coins.
I have a 1955-S Roosevelt dime I looked in my Cherrypickers' Guide and it doesn't show one like it. The S mint mark is quite flattened, the lowest...
What a surprise indeed!
A couple of tokens, one a Mare Island (CA) ferry token good for one fare in its original used state.Mare Island is the location of the oldest...
Here are some fancy numbered notes I have had for quite some time. Series 1969B, a pair of consecutive star notes A00007099* - 7100* and one...
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