Anything but Gem quality (certified MS-65+ and higher) 1964 dated silver coins are pretty much "junk silver." The mintages were very high, and...
Here is a picture of the whole coin. It's in my "virtual black cabinet." [ATTACH] Sorry, my bad. He only posted the obverse on other sites.
I don't collect very many of these pieces. Here are the only two I have. I bought this one of George III and Charlotte's marriage at the 2022...
Yes, fake, but it is an unreasonable facsimile of the non-existent business strike of the 1895-P dollar.
Here's coin that might give some nightmares. The reverse shows "The restoration of happy times" ... A Roman soldier doing in a barbarian with...
That one is one of the “copperheads” that supported the Confederate cause. “Fort Layfeyette” was a prison in New York harbor where suspected...
That and one of those machines that can jam two pieces of plastic together. Of course I've seen one that didn't even have that. You could open and...
No, actually his father, Edward I, was "the heavy" in the Braveheart movie. If Edward II had been heading the army that opposed William Wallace,...
My impression is that a large portion of the population was trying to scratch out a living on a little piece of land and probably did not touch...
He was almost certainly gay, and that got him into a lot of trouble. He treated his two partners (They were not at the same time.) better than he...
The weather.
The odd part was the coin counter at the Philadelphia store was more impressive than the one in New York, which was under a staircase. The New...
I think that there was something more goin on with that piece other than just envelope toning. I think that it was dipped or had something else...
Blank planchets are kind of tough to grade when you have so many grading numbers. Still, I agree. It's not an MS-70.
Okay ... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Yea, I know, conspicuous consumption. :angelic:
I spotted this at the Lakeland, Florida collectors' show a couple of days ago. It is a York Maine commemorative half dollar with the original...
I don't know about "superb," but here's the one I have. I am never going to be a serious collector of Greek coins, but this design is really...
Most of my hammered British coins fall in the VF category for grades. I have tried to buy better, but most of what I run into has seen a fair...
My first ancient coin, a denarius of Geta which I bought in 1965 from Gimbels Department store in Philadelphia. It would be many years before I...
The one in my type set. I wish I could afford one in Matte Proof. [ATTACH] I do have the 1909 Plain in Matte Proof. [ATTACH]
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