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Interesting example of the mindset before collecting by mint marks became popular. Seems funny now, that they were only thinking that the year mattered as who would ever care about what mint it was f… (View Post)

Looks like it hid the hairlines very well. Here is the original photo by NASA before launch to Mars along with the story of it. We now have an additional way to retone coins. https://jpl.nasa.gov/ima… (View Post)

While I find that the lighting on many of the coin videos by Heritage seem to miss the mark, there are those that catch the luster very well. One of those in my opinion is the 1811 PCGS-65 Red Large … (View Post)

Bowers and Ruddy became Bowers and Merena in 1983, so they are at least 1983 or earlier. Some prices were higher then than now with Bowers retail prices often much higher than normal retail. Those pr… (View Post)

. . Thought I recalled seeing that listed in another auction and found two other appearances of your 1876-CC 20 cent at auction, both from 1989. First was a January 1989 Stack's auction where it… (View Post)