A counterfeit for sure. The digits in the date are off, and that’s just the start. I almost got stuck with a fake 1904 double eagle in the 1970s....
I am looking mainly to take close-up pictures of coins and process them. I tend to need white balance help with the camera that I have.
This counterfeit Pillar Dollar was offered at my local club's auction a year or so. The consigner gave it to me for educational purposes after I...
I have been using the Microsoft Digital Image Suite software for processing photos for years. Now my software and computers are becoming obsolete,...
I remember that I was maning a club table at show for a while. We were offering free opinions on coins that people had. One woman had one of those...
If it is raised above the surface of the coin, it's a die crack, which this is. If it is INTO the coin, it's a scratch, and that usually is not good.
I have a small group of about 15 to 20 pieces that a fellow club member gave to use for educational purposes. It includes a 1908 American Silver...
Among collectors who have and will spend money on coins, Morgan Dollars are by far the most popular series.
Yes, they are more interesting than run of the mill junk silver.
I imagine that they have lots of followers. There were too many big customers around when I was a dealer for the market to have dried up that...
None. I buy the coins in the holders that I want. When I was dealer, I submitted quite a few coins because it was the way to make money. Now...
If you are talking about ancient coins, yes. If you are invovled with old U.S. coins, not as much. "Cleaning" or "work done" is more likely with...
Yea, I was beginning to wonder about that. The 1873 Two Cent Piece is wicked expensive in all grades. Even if you find one in Good, it’s still...
The 1865 is pretty easy, almost like the 1864 Large Motto. The 1870 is tougher. Here's the one I had in a set that I formed and sold years ago. I...
Recently there has been some talk about the Continental Dollar, which now appears not be a dollar at all, but a small medal that commemorated the...
The 1864 $500 Confederate note can be collected with various colors. There are three levels, light red, pink and dark red underprints. The "dark...
Old copper large cents can get red corrosion. It is rarer than green corrosion, but it can happen. I must confess that have not looked at enough...
She has a very strange business model. Most coin companies want to keep real and potential big customers happy. She insults them in public. Why...
If you were in my shoes, you would know more about her.
I think that the value has gone down on the Continental Dollars. People might want to believe what they want to believe, but given than these...
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