Since I now have to pay taxes from Heritage auctions I'll probably win fewer auction bids. Although if I do run across an exceptional coin my...
I don't use price guides. I always look at auction results and compare the coin I'm bidding on against each one, noting strike, eye appeal,...
What's the grade on that 1916? The middle bands should keep it from being FB.
Looks like a pretty solid strike and still has some luster. Looks better than most MS 63's that I've seen. Even with that I wouldn't have bid...
A nice FB 16-S is on my bucket list.
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Some coins I want are rarely, if ever, offered by local dealers near me. If an exceptional example shows up in a Heritage auction i won't...
Since they started charging Wisconsin tax on my purchases I've considered that extra cost in my bids. In the end it's the consignors who eat the...
Part of me wonders if they actually send the tax added money to the states or keep it as extra profit. Of course the risk of doing that would be...
As far as buying coins, big shows usually mean big bucks which are out of my retired pay scale. It is nice looking at rarities that one normally...
I agree. Those with many thousands of dollars to spend can absorb the costs of attending national shows that are more than a days drive away from...
I just couldn't pass that one up. I'm a sucker for nice early Lincolns. One goal is to put together a MS 66/67 Lincoln year set. We'll see how...
I'd give it a details grade
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What I'd like to see is an expansion of the current grading system to include strike and other factors that can separate, say, identically graded...
1948-S was a good date for full steps and nice strike. I've got a number of nice raw ones. Now finding similar 1953-S and 1954-S examples is a...
I found a couple nice details coins to fill slots for early copper in my 7070 album. Both coins have slight corrosion but the strikes were sharp...
I too shy away from weak strikes and toners. Also, for earlier series i stick with slabs for MS examples. I'm assuming that few, if any, high...
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