Steve: My handle is 'Bill in Burl" as it has been for nearly 20 years on these coin sites. I live in Burlington in Headon Forest. PM me
Charlton prices are full retail. You should be able to buy anything 62-63 or less for about 70% of Charlton by shopping around and waiting and...
There is a new Charlton catalogue every year. The information for the 2017 edition will be just about done in June/July. Every year there is a...
I don't see any 3/3.
Wow! I guess that I have to eat my words. It sure looked like a rim ding to me.
Just looking at the vertical jewels in the crown and the rim ding, I don't think that it will make MS. Looking at Trends & the CaC price site, I...
I'd check out Hohnstein & Stolberg in German States and the Austrian States had many rulers that had coat collars like yours.
I'm not an active collector of them, but I think that the proofs had a quite wide rim like the black one.
I would call these guys. They don't necessarily put everything on the website that they have on hand at the store and Brooklyn Gallery has had...
Wow! That last quoted explanation is Chinese translated back into English, very poorly at best. Reminds me of easy assembly instructions from...
I don' think that it lines up with the bead... looks large bead to me.
I'd say XF or XF+ and nearly AU. I wonder if the Reverse is drawer wear from sliding (or even a weak strike) ... still wear, but honest wear...
Only as a last resort should you use a soft toothbrush on a coin. Granted, the bristles won't harm the copin, but the grit and dirt that is...
As a rule of thumb, you can almost always delineate a LD from a small date by taking a file card or piece of paper and run it vertically down...
Gene or Doug should chime in soon. Both are token folk and will quote from their excellent references
For the person who posted an 1859 large cent and wondered about the thickness. The Provincial large cents (1858 & 59) for Canada were made in...
The $103 auction is in US dollars and Charlton is in Cdn(1.3 X). Always be careful about looking at Ebay auctions and comparing to Charlton or...
Actually, all of the 1876's have the left foot of the T in Victoria missing (it broke off the hub that strikes the working dies)... then 3 of the...
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Ok, we'll see, but the partners were shown the 4 very onvious markers that earmark that scarce variety and his coin had none of them... he was...
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