My mother used to call the "old lady dies." Here was joke she to me from her era: Look at the ax head on the reverese. Doesn't it look like the...
You could call him that too. Usually those who write the books don't want to be that dated or informal. :)
I have been fascinated by the early half dimes since I was in high school. The trouble is they have always been expensive, and there was no way I...
What you have is a modern copy of a “Continental Dollar.” I bought one at Woolworths for $1 in the 1970s. It is a cast copy of a piece that could...
When the copper-nickel alloy, which is on the obverse of this piece, corrodes, it often turns brown. Sometimes it can be black or even green....
The one that looks "redder" in the picture appears to be Mint State. Using the roll bid number from the "Greysheet" a dealers' wholesale pricing...
Thank you Idhair. Yes, I am he. I am contributing my knownlege over here because there is a group over there who no longer appreciate what I have...
PCGS grade MS-66, real grade MS-65. There are lots of little marks when you really look at it.
Pricing problem coins has always been a problem for me. Generally you go down one grade in price for fairly minor problems that prevent a coin...
The trouble is if you pay these Chinese counterfeiters anything you are feeding the beast. They deserve to lose their shirts for engaging in this...
That totally rotten "1908 Dollar" is actually rather deceptive ... if you didn't know that such things were never made.
I don't have any photos of circualted Classic Head half cents, but here are a couple of Mint State pieces that might help you see how sharply...
OOPPS I was wrong. Sorry for the mix-up. I have a 1906 and a 1908 American Silver Eagle. These great rarities were prevously unknown but have been...
Look for this one to re-appear as a “rare error coin” elsewhere on the Web. There was a troll who kept posting this stuff on another site....
The Chinese have made some junk like this. How would you like to have a 1909 American Silver Eagle? I’ve got one. :troll:
They are dumping an NGC (presumed to be graded Mint State) graded 1921 Morgan Dollar in a melt bin??? What gives?
This is an interesting game the seller is playing here. The seller pulls out the PGGS coin numbers and posts them to make seem like these...
The 1832 has been whizzed or something and then recolored. The giveaway is the mushy appearance on the obverse in the area around the face. These...
Unfortunately all of the pieces you have have been cleaned to one extent or another. 1800 - Cleaned and recolored with smoothing in the fields....
No, cleaned begins with hairlines, which result when metal is moved around with a polishing device. Absent of those, cleaned can mean polished,...
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