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Re: What's your earliest purchase you'd be just as excited buying now as when you bought it?
This was my first 'serious' chopmarked coin, an 1811 Capped Bust Half Dollar. Came off of HA's Make Offer to Owner program from a sale seven years prior, and kickstarted the type set I've been workin… (View Post)10 -
Re: ChopMark coins clues to authenticity
I agree that these are modern ink marks, I heard about a company in China that was adding modern ink stamps to otherwise genuine, but typically heavily chopmarked, Eight Reales, claiming they added &… (View Post)2 -
Re: New Finest Known Three-Cent Silver, 1865 MS-69 CAC
I guess that's just how nice of a coin it is, to make me look in a different direction. :D (View Post)5 -
New Finest Known Three-Cent Silver, 1865 MS-69 CAC
PCGS Cert Page: https://www.pcgs.com/cert/49730458 Stack's Listing: https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-1B97YY/1865-silver-three-cent-piece-repunched-date-ms-69-pcgs-cac Description from St… (View Post)19 -
Re: Countermarked 1795 & 1799 American Dollars in British Royal Mint Museum
@P0CKETCHANGE, the "head of a fool on the neck of an ass" refers to the mark specifically on a Carlos IV Spanish Colonial 8 Reales, the most common host; the 'fool' would refer to George II… (View Post)6
