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Re: CONTURSI SELLS THE 1794 $1 FOR ALMOST $8 MILLION!
Thanks everyone! It really in an incredible coin, one that I am very pleased and honored to be associated with. << <i> << <i>Amazing how so few facts are turned into such an elaborate story. Still, it's an amazing example of the first silver dollars. >> Well said. >> Like many coin stories, much has been said about this… -
Re: Has the US Mint blown the 2026 Semiquincentennial Coins?
Release half dollar in July, quarter in August, dollar in fall, proof and mint sets on normal schedule, replace blue Ike with 3-coin set. That's it. Kept it simple, they did. -
Re: Over $15k already on a re-engraved coin!!! 1861-D G$1
It depends upon what you call, "a long history," and how much may have been covered up in the auction descriptions of years gone by. My experience is mostly limited to the coin magazines I read in the 1960s, the auction catalogs I reviewed in the '70s and '80s and what I saw at the coin stores and shows during the same… -
Re: Frederick Coin Show..
zenny: It's a complicated and tangled story. The "one confirmed specimen in private hands" that you mention might possibly be the one that Frank Gasparro had, that I mentioned above, or it may not. Ed Reiter of COINage had the opportunity of interviewing Frank before he died, and the highlight of his interview was when… -
Re: Still new at this... so looking for some opinions.
Flatten those staples down! :| No idea on RPMs or DDs, but the "struck through".... Visualize what happens with a struck through error - a foreign object gets between the planchet and dies and is stuck into the coin (it usually falls or wipes away and doe snot stay in place). So the error would be an indentation into the… -
Re: why do I see proof modern gold sold sometimes less than regular gold?
what do you do with 40 or 50 proofs in those cheesy looking packages? Do everyone a favor and smash the capsule scratch the coin and set fire to all that velvety garbage they swaddle it all in. Oh, the humanity! Hey, what do you expect from the Mint? It's the Mint!!! We're way past the time when "proof" was a test coin for… -
Re: whats in a name?
et tu burte??????? , now it is hark hark harkened he i am the east, and juliet is the sun, and he huffed and puffed, and smoked the house down, and they all blew up and died after the fell off the beanstalk and hit humpty dumpty in the head and he broke and they got some brains, a heart, home , a a can of spam, and lived… -
Re: O.T. The Monte Carlo is on fire!
should we also pray for everyone else who dies today? car accidents. fall down the stairs. tiger mauls them after a taunting. a soldier killed in iraq. a bum overdoses under a bridge. a heart attack takes a life of an elderly person. is it because this is las vegas that this is somehow worthy of attention? what about my… -
Re: Thankfully, Daniel Carr is using his press for good rather than evil, but what happens if it falls i
As is always the case with these discussions, there are some people on the fringes of the argument, while (hopefully) most of us can talk about the middle. I do not believe that Dan Carr broke into the Denver Mint and stole the press -- it is much more likely that the mint sold a used press as scrap or something similar.… -
Re: Stack’s Bowers Galleries Partners with David Hall to Launch Collectible Market Qualified (CMQ)
In adding to Coinbuf's comment, ANACS graded several variety coins well before NGC and PCGS- Including Morgan VAMs and various double dies among others- such as the 1946 WLH DDR. I see no compelling reason not to accept ANACS graded coins such as these if it is really is about the coin. Further, seems the decision making…
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