I think that it is genuine, but you have to be carful with these when they are not certified. Believe it or not, the Chinese counterfeiters made a...
I am not up on the current prices for these pieces, but this one is not worth a great deal because of the amount of wear. My guess would be $10...
I bought one many years ago for $1. There are several dates, but the famous one is the 1944 with no mint mark above Monticello. This has been...
Yes, it's worth more than melt, but the 1853-D half eagle is the most common date in the Dahlonega series. Many of them were made from...
Here are a couple of those altered 1944-D to 1914-D pieces that were done with a little more subtlety. The fact that the obverses were re-toned...
A dealer had a piece in his inventory that I had considered buying for a long time. It was a Lincoln token. I was on the fence about because of...
Yes, that happens. Back when I was a dealer, another dealer asked to bid on some of his eBay stuff. "You won't have to buy it if you won," he told...
I used to buy on eBay if I knew the dealer. I don’t bid there any more because of the sniping. Life is too short to be made unhappy because of...
It was probably dipped at some point and not rinsed properly. Then it may have gone into an envelope. I have never been much of a coin dipper,...
And what was you source for the fundamental education that facilitated your ability to look something up? There are very few people, like Abraham...
Some collectors are very militant about remaining ignorant. I am in the process of leaving my local club because a loud, militant group has...
That is a very nice example. The 1805 half cents are FAR RARER than the 1804, which is the most common date in the series. The 1805 C-1 might be...
No, it’s real and only graded MS-64.
I subscribed to The Whitman Numismatic Journal for the whole time it was published and still have a number of them. I think it was created to...
1836 Gobrecht Dollar restrike. [ATTACH] The is the die rotation #4 with the reverse die set at a "medal turn" with the eagle flying...
The Director of the Mint in 1811 didn't think much of half cents. He had the mint strike all of the half cent planchets that the mint had on hand...
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Yes, the Three Dollar Gold Piece is expensive. You have to buy it certified too because there were many counterfeits made in the 1960s. The "Omega...
Sorry, I have go with George Washington as the person who did the most for this country during his lifetime. If that had been no George...
At $40, the price on that clad commemorative half dollar is way too high. Didn't they used to sell for $12 or less? Now they are too expensive for...
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