When I was a dealer, buying raw coins and sending them in for grading was one way to get a better price and make more money. I didn’t cheat the...
One of the hallmarks of a Mint State coin, which is often overlooked when the TPGs grade early, middle and late date half cents and large cents,...
I would like to help, but I think you need to see more of the obverse. Edward IV was an interesting king who had a lot of potential. He was an...
The quarter with that counterstamp is far rarer.
I think that it is going to come back as a Proof.
When I bought this coin at the Gimbels Department coin counter in the mid 1960s, they graded it EF. NGC graded it MS-62, Brown. My grade is AU-58,...
MS-63, Brown.
Here is one of the few counterstampled coins in my collection. It is a "Vote the Land Free" large cent that is part of my political collection....
This is one of my favorites because the Small Eagle that appears on the first U.S. $5 and $10 gold coins was the last design I needed to have an...
I have heard them called "mint disks." They are made of plastic and put in the spare pocket of the mint sets for the Philadelphia and Denver Mints...
The EAC grading system is much stricter than the TPGs on most items. What the grading services might call MS-62 might make no more than AU-50 or...
NGC graded a lot of the Eric P. Newman collection liberally also. This ex Newman Vermont portrait copper was in an NGC AU holder when it was sold....
Jules had a wide variety of detailed variety sets. For example he collected the early half dimes by Valentine variety. I collect them by Red Book...
I am not sure that I would grade that 1897 Liberty Nickel as an MS-67. I see small "carbon spots" which are one of factors that hold these coins...
I only have a book to Jules sent to me as a gift. Jules was a student at the University of Delaware when my mother went there. She knew him from...
A lot of the coins that show slide marks are in collectors’ albums. The coins are not worth enough to send to a TPG for grading, so they never see...
I saw the coin in person; you didn’t. It was in the album. I took the photos. I saw the cause of its problem. You come back with an attack. I have...
Here is an example of album slides can do. It was enough to make me cry because I love the early half dimes. This was once a really nice...
Sorry, but I disagree. I've seen slide marks on straight graded slabbed coins on more than few occasions. If you leave the highest points of the...
You don't have to buy junk for the common dates. Unless you after the Cameo coins, the best place to find them is in intact, never opened Proof...
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