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The 1851 PCGS MS65 half in the Hansen collection is ex-Evergreen collection showing up on the bourse floor of FUN 2002. I was offered the coin there for $33,000 when it was a fresh NGC MS66 tied for … (View Post)

The "fresh" requirement brings a potential thorn in any transaction. You purchase a top quality slabbed coin from one of your favored, high profile, national dealers. When you go back to th… (View Post)

Believe me, that's not the "custom." And you should never have to worry about this happening to you. 99.9% of coin transactions on a bourse floor between dealers (esp. PNG ones) are do… (View Post)

I don't recognize the Hansen 1846 MS66+ TD from any of the name sales of the past 45 yrs. But, odds would favor it having shown up at auction at least once prior. MS65 better date No Motto seate… (View Post)

It has the pleasing "look" of a 64 coin with apparently original surfaces. It's just a matter how much (if any) that luster is broken up in the fields. Heck of an early O mint gold coi… (View Post)