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Re: Large cent surfaces in low grade, is this Environmental damage or something else?
EAC grading is for the birds. The bottom line is where they price the particular coin. (View Post)2 -
Re: Emergency coinage in US during revolutionary times?
You have two Machin’s Mills halfpence. Your 1776 is known as a Vlack 9-76B small date. Eric Newman wrote a fabulous article highlighting this particular coin and its tie in to Vermont coppers in 1958… (View Post)2 -
Re: What are your numismatic / coin related pet peeves?
Slabbed poor-1 40% half dollars. No way did they circulate in commerce for 30+ years in order to get that worn. (View Post)2 -
Re: How would you rank my haul yesterday?
While I am comfortable buying raw coins, I get very leery when I see 2X2’d items with “sale price” stickers or with distracting sharpie colorings and markings around the borders. I’m buying the coin … (View Post)1 -
Re: Quality Garbage (PO01coins…for Catbert.)
I completely agree. How in the world are you going to get a kid interested in collecting when you show them a totally common coin that is essentially a slick disk versus a coin that costs less but yo… (View Post)1