Numismat you dropped the second definition... 2. belonging to or occurring in the present. "the tension and complexities of our contemporary...
I'd be REALLY, REALLY worried if you could tell the species of rat from some characteristic of the damage. That would be entirely too much...
In this case, it's typical to focus on the FIRST definition, not the second. Like many words, the multiple meanings can cause confusion.
Starting in 1983, US Cents are made of copper plated zinc instead of pure copper. A small amount of zinc gets into the plating bath, leading to...
I don't think you need to worry about authenticity, however I would be VERY concerned about the actual grade that, say, a reputable TPG would assign.
Well, they arrived on Black Friday although I bought them earlier... a couple treasure trivia NGC slabs from @Paddy54. Smooth transaction!
Your eyes/mind are playing tricks on you and resolving random nicks and dings into a ghost number.
ANACS is significantly cheaper if you're paying for the.slabbing and they attribute more varieties than the others. But you pay for that when you...
After soaking in Acetone for about 3 days (I forgot about it) [ATTACH] no real change
The market certainly didn't love them that's why they went back to 7 and then on to 9. But I've seen a couple which are no worse (or better) than...
Looks good to me. Conder can't help :( since he's color blind, it was years afterwards that he realized there were brown and green labels. So he...
Screenshots of photos are useless - there's at least two passes of sampling. Since you have the photo on the device to show it and take the...
Once it's cracked out, it's raw. So it would cost the normal amount. There is also no guarantee it would grade the same.
Supposedly hand poured bars are harder to fake...
Flynn and Zack list 1851-TCS-1/A (obverse die 1, reverse A) German Silver 1853-TCS-1/A Silvered Brass 1859-TCS-1/A Silver (0.89g, so must be...
Dave, give the poor guy some credit. The mint's die makers have good light, reducing lathes, straight edges, clean smooth plaster, an annealing...
Enjoy! [ATTACH] Note the typical pick up points - the lines of the star aren't exactly 72 degree corners. The crude reverse (especially the orbs...
I don't know that they are all that valuable. There's just not a lot of information or collectors out there. Flynn & Zack's book only listed a...
Flynn & Zack recount the story of a counterfeiting ring broken up in New York City in 1885. They were counterfeiting 1c 3c and 'dimes' out of...
Actually, I've met several honest dealers. One I remember had a 3CS that he bought in an ICG slab AU55. He cracked it out because he couldn't sell...
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