The latest addition to the Capped Bust Half Dime set - 1835 LM-1, rarity 2 in PCGS AU50 CAC. This one was acquired because it's an early stage of...
Confirmed as 19-87C and the late die state of it. I've been looking for a nice Machin's Mills for some time but just haven't found the right one...
[ATTACH] This is the only one from my childhood, about 1965. Like most, I had no money but I did buy this from a coin shop in Kansas City. No...
In agreement with previous comments. Entering serial number into ICG cert verification returned this: [ATTACH]tha So, ICG called it "genuine"...
Certainly not the rarest or most expensive but probably my current favorites: #1: Silver "penney" of Aethelred II, one of the middle group of...
I agree that it looks most like an altered 1858. But weighing it will definitively tell the tale. A genuine 1853 No Arrows will weigh 6.68...
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About that 1832 LM-10.3 half dime in my previous post and referring to a different post that was about how to know and value coins with adjudged...
Won in a GC auction last night against a worthy underbidder who recognized the rarity of this die remarriage, the 1832 LM-10.3, R-6, estimated...
@Barney McRae ,I am not aware of an authoritative, current, comprehensive and free source of rarity data. If you are, I would love to hear of it....
I don't think it can be a die chip because it shows up in many years. Here's some of mine where it's apparent. It's hard to believe that it's a...
Ditto. I've been doing that piece by piece for a while now - selling off things I'm not collecting anymore, selling off pieces I don't like and...
Lincolns - Yes. Each of these is a distinctly different design, albeit small changes. Nickels - For these modern nickel issues, I only place one...
I don't think they are raised. I see evidence of raised edges on a few lines on the reverse. And die lines are almost universally parallel and...
I'm not convinced those are adjustment marks. Because of the criteria I outlined earlier, I would not consider buying this coin because of that...
I have gotten increasingly cynical about grading, particularly over the last couple of years. Partly that is due to just being better educated...
Here's one bought raw a few years ago. Sent it in for grading knowing it would come back Cleaned. Note the cleaning lines, more than hairlines,...
Who's the bigger nerd now?
I retract the term "hyperbolic" even though it did express my feelings about the hyperbole of high prices. Mathematically however, the term...
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