The PCGS, CoinFacts values tend to be high. I learned that the hard way, and it seems that they are getting more out of whack, not less. They now...
The surveys don’t seem to do much good. The mint has become more greedy, more interested in serving the speculators and flippers than the...
If you believe that these “unsearched” lots of coins are really “unsearched,” I have a bridge to Brooklyn to sell you. This type of advertising...
Mint marks were omitted in 1965 to discourage collectors from taking more coins from circulation for their collections and for dealer and...
From what I've read, the bad stuff didn't happen until Jackson's successor, Martin Van Buren, took office on March 4, 1837. It was known as the...
The 1792 half disme was the introduction of the decimal system of coinage in the United States. The reale was part of that system only to the...
Your idea a of three cent multiple chart is a good one. The Spanish system, with the pieces of eight, had far more influence in The United States...
The color is great, but the rims are a mess. It’s still a junk box item.
I see evidence of friction in the right and left in the right and left obverse fields and to a lesser extent, the reverse. You can see original...
No there was no break in the issuance of the half dime. Only the design changed.
Sorry, but I am not 100% sure about that. There appears to a group of marks in the mint mark area. [ATTACH] I am not saying that the mint mark...
My grade would be EF-40, but I imagine that it's higher than that. I would say EF-45, but it has a few more marks in the fields than I would like...
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One of my big purchases at the Winter FUN Show was this Feuchtwanger three cent piece that features "the defiant eagle." [ATTACH] This one of...
It's a hard series to complete because of the dates from 1863 to 1872 which are mostly available as Proofs. The 1873 is only known in Proof....
The Grey Sheet says that the 1909 to 1933 set is worth $1,449.40 in Fine and $1,795.95 in VF. How they get that precise in value is beyond me. Add...
Here is a George III half penny. I think you can see by the profile who is on the Georgius Triumpho copper. Of course, the British probably had no...
Unfortunately for those with more limited knowledge and not in contact with this string of messages, these things are immoral. That’s especially...
Yes, the cheek is too smooth to be only an MS-62 grade. The face looks more like a 1921 Morgan Dollar and the reverse lost the breast feather...
I should probably give this book a second look. I remember seeing a grading book by Bowers over 10 years ago. I didn’t buy it because I had the...
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