This looks like a part of a complete set of Seated Dollars the Chinese put out about 10 years ago. Not only were all the coins fake, but the...
Some people might think that there are four Chain Cent die varieties. There are actually five. The only decent example of the fifth one is in the...
All you need to do is catch one fish, and you have made your day.
The coin looks okay on the surface, but I would never buy a raw coin like this on the Internet. As a dealer, I would never have sold a coin like...
@TypeCoin971793, I find that “1847 large cent” scary. The others, not so much.
Even when the word “COPY” is stamped on a “reproduction,” the possibility of fraud still exists. There have been instances where Gallery Mint...
I agreed with this post because of the last sentence. I strongly disagree with the first sentence. If it has not been stamped with the word...
I have one counter stamped large cent with a 19th century political slogan on it. I won’t bother with one unless the counter stamp means something...
The one piece of advice I can give is, you had better be good at counterfeit detection if go the all raw coin route. Sure, counterfeits have made...
My coin is just "a youngster" compared to what the others have posted. A Roman Republic Quadrigatus 225 to 215 BC. [ATTACH]
Last week one of our members was pleased to announce that he had just joined that select group of collectors who have a Julius Caesar portrait...
The classic claim was that newspaper writers characterized the small eagle as looking weak. That may well have been correct. The 1794-5 eagle...
Yes, but there is always greed and ignorance factor. If they can get a sucker to pay a couple thousand dollars for this "new certified discovery...
It's bad idea for a couple of reasons. First, if you have to pay him or her, it's waste of money. I am pretty sure that it's bad. Second, if it...
There is no way that we are going back to the gold standard unless the artificial price of gold was set at some 7 or 8 figure amount per ounce....
I was hoping that it might be a sea savage piece from the reverse, but the obverse looks to be an obvious cast copy. I don't have any sea salvage...
Within the last decade.
And guys like the Hunt Brothers, who speculated in silver and silver futures, managed to go from billionaires to bankruptcy. They took some other...
The mint tried to hire experienced coin makers from Europe, but all of those efforts fell through. The first mint ended up becoming an amateur...
The same reason why those who handle a lot of valuable assets have to post bonds or get insurance today. If money or valuables turn up missing,...
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