nice looking coins!
I took a few minutes and looked back through Heritage auction archives from now to the start of 2019 for examples graded 55-65 and did not see any...
NIce! Tough to find the Classic Heads on such nice quality copper.
Amazingly detailed photos, Justin! On the axial photos I can really see the shapes of the individual impressions really well. One thought that...
I'll post the same reply I wrote over on the CU forum (starting with a tabulation of the opinion of other replies to the thread!) 4 votes for...
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sold for 21,000. I see that Newman bagged it for $3.50
the reverse legend on the primitive makes me wonder if Higgins was familiar with Higley?
66FB?
Since there is a fixed number of classic coins, TPGs need to be creative in order to generate more revenue, we agree on that. If customer...
That's a really cool chopmarked 8R, scottishmoney. I'd love to have that in my collection. Interesting that the chops on 18thc coins tend to be...
I'm at 45 on the quarter and 53 on the half. both probably dipped at some point but not excessively from what I can see. Nice album coins
Higgins also made the "Primitive" tokens featuring the US Monitor. John Milton has a really nice one, mine looks like something scraped off the...
I expect that if there is a vast difference in value between proofs and MS versions of the same date, the TPG's would expend extra time and energy...
Looked at a few more proofs on heritage and the images posted here since last night. on the obv, just outside the right edge of the shield, to...
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Or cannibalism.
[ATTACH] Quite a few chopmarked trade dollars also have test marks on them made by twist drills, to see if the coin was just a plated base metal....
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