PCGS says they have graded three Bar Cents in MS-66, but "Coin Facts" does note list any records of a public sale. I don't know how you could see...
For what it's worth, here is a certified 1909-S Indian Cent. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here is a certified 1877 I sold when I was a dealer years...
Unfortunately, I don't think that the piece is genuine. If you look at the little "teeth" around the rim of the design, called denticles, they...
I would say MS-64. It has a figure print or two which keeps it out of the "Gem Quality" MS-65 level, but standards are lower today.
Yes, I was interested in the Peace Dollar because I wanted a great, well-defined example of the design, but it looks like I’ll have to jump...
I agree with limiting the order size. You didn’t have to be a genius to know that these coins would be popular and sell out quickly. Stuff like...
The consigner must have had “a thing” for that key date and accumulated them over the years.
The more I look at the pictures of the 1877 and the 1909-S, the more leery I become. I have seen Chinese counterfeits with that type of toning. I...
I have never bought from them, but I would take Great Collectors over eBay by a wide margin. Great Collections has a good reputation. eBay is whom...
The difference between PR-69 and 70 isn’t even a hairline scratch on a modern coin. It can be as little as a pinpoint hole in the Proof fields...
When I was a kid, I got the 1873 open and closed 3 cents for my album, which didn’t have openings for both coins. I put the extra coin it the 1856...
I might buy it, if I was 100% sure it was gold, but chances are I won’t. My approach was to send them to the right dealer and not make ridiculous...
Many of these dealers don’t have the expertise or the customers to resell these coins. The best they could do would be re-sell the coins to...
I know a dealer who has a network of buyers who place orders whenever the mint sells a sure-shot, hot item. These buyers include some of his...
My guess would be no, unless the prices are so incredibly low that the purchase would be, as my grandmother used to say, “a dead give-away.”...
Why is the “ED” so sharp if it was under a fallen lamination? I have seen other laminations where the design elements were only a shadow of what...
The 1877 has a sharpness grade of Fine by today’s standards, but it appears to have been cleaned. That will lower the value by a significant...
Long ago, it was not unusual to old large cents like this that had had some or all of the hair detail restored via tooling. I don’t think that is...
The fancy word for making money by finding minute differences in exchange rates is “arbitrage.” So far as having the early U.S. made out of base...
The San Francisco Mint is mostly known in the very modern era for making special coins like commemoratives and Proof sets. There have been times...
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