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Interesting to put a unique coin, particularly one so significant, into a trust; I can't imagine there would be many buyers placing a more competitive offer. You'd think putting a figure like that in… (View Post)

These specific ones, no. However, large relief chops are fairly common on Pillar 8Rs; the commonly repeated belief is that they are "banker's chops", but I haven't seen any evidence to supp… (View Post)

I'd be interested to know to what extent PCGS is slabbing contemporary counterfeits as well. Will it extend to world coins? (View Post)

Hopefully they are recovered, but even the DuPont coins have not been returned in full. Remember last year, when the new specimen of the 1854-S $5 came out? Supposedly the fourth known example, but t… (View Post)

The reason that PCGS started assigning numerical grades to chopmarked Trade Dollars was due to the influence of a very well known collector who personally valued them and made a push for them to be s… (View Post)