It certainly does matter if it's a rare date, and 1865-P certainly is. But are you sure that it isn't just an 1865-S with a hole where the mint...
Looks more like PMD (a hit to the mintmark) to me. That, or it's an extremely rare issue from the Rochester mint. :)
A $3 Gold at melt? LOL! The cheapest one that's sold on eBay lately was close to P01 on both faces, and got $310. Trashed, holed, and soldered...
If you're trying to maximize gold weight for your buck, it seems like Liberty $5 (half-eagles) run the lowest premiums. Then again, I haven't been...
I also can't imagine that whales like APMEX or MCM don't negotiate their own more-favorable terms.
Take your choice. List under Bullion, avoid the 90-day return, and see up to 2% lower final prices because your buyers aren't getting 2% eBay...
Dude. If you've got a working time machine, you can do way better than hauling chunks of metal back and forth. :)
Zombucks are not denominated in dollars. Norfeds were. You can make your own novelty tokens, denominated in your own novelty units, but you don't...
I don't know whether all those sites search the stuff themselves -- I suspect not -- but it seems likely that a lot of the folks selling to them...
It's tempting, but I'd rather not saggle myself with that much debt. :)
Is that wear at the ear, temple, and cheekbone? I would've thought so, but I see the same effect on Photograde's MS63 image. Even if not, I wonder...
Well, it's an error in judgement to plate a coin gold like that, but it's certainly not a mint error.
Wow. If you really see that as a 3, I guess there just isn't much more to say. (Well, I might go over the difference between Shift and Caps Lock,...
eBay, of course. :) Oddly enough, although dateless SLQs are usually worn enough to be 5-10% underweight, they usually still trade a bit above...
Looks like a pretty clear shadow of a 4 to me. Oddly, I just got what I think is a similarly-faint 24-S in a batch of "dateless" SLQs yesterday.
Yep, that's a beauty!
DON'T EVER clean silver coins with baking soda! Even though that dollar looks like it's been cleaned before, and it's probably damaged from being...
In addition to the heavy wear, I'm seeing signs of cleaning and/or damage on some of them. Even in that state, though, Barbers can bring a bit...
Well, that does boost my confidence in my eBay-calibrated valuation skills. :) (In other words, the eBay user community arrived at about the same...
I wouldn't see it as $13.38 per half. I'd see it as $9/half as a base price -- if you've got a source for non-slick Barber halves at melt, I'd...
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