Okay, that is low. Maybe Jim's right about the acid damage. (Or maybe both!)
To me, this one doesn't look like acid damage -- it looks like it was partially melted. Can you weigh it? What does the edge look like?
No shelves there. Nice find!
Yep! I'm not really in the IHC market, but it doesn't bother me one bit to have coins like this in my collection.
I've heard about those "pennies". :yack:
It was down over 2% earlier in the day (just before 10AM EDT); silver was down even more than that. Both have bounced back from that dip, silver...
LOL, maybe keep that detail confidential when it's time to sell! :stinkyfeet:
I'm a nickel neophyte, but it doesn't look to me like any of the steps are fully defined across their entire width. I'm curious about what's...
I don't think I realized that there were any silent color films... o_O
I thought the Maya Angelou design was just OK, until I saw one in-hand with uncirculated luster. It really comes to life. I'm looking forward to...
Contrast with today, when our cent, purchasing power about 1/17 of that half-cent in 1854, is still minted by the billions. Maybe people were...
Now I'm imagining a firearm vending machine. o_O
How in the world did they squeeze that into a ROLL?
My favorite kind of quiz -- one where I'm confident in the WRONG answer, but get an explanation as to why it's wrong. Misplaced confidence is...
Thinking that first dealer may someday get some blowback from buying sets like this at ~1/3 silver value. Yeah, Canadian sterling (and sterling in...
Well, maybe. But think about how long it takes a coin to clunk-clunk-kachunk through one of those machines and register its value. You might well...
That sort of electrolytic cleaning is a gentler way to remove tarnish than a lot of others, but I sure wouldn't crack a key coin out of a...
Looks to me like slabbed ones are going for less than $33 on eBay (not always, but sometimes).
Are waffled standard-issue coins (as opposed to patterns) really worth THAT much of a premium? I had the impression that they were pretty common now.
Kind of surprised the plating didn't split and expose zinc on THIS one.
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