http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php Coin Boards Collectors Society Message Boards - UBB.threads(tm) http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6712445#Post6712445 Posted by FishyOne:
AU50.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 18:53:58 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6712382#Post6712382 Posted by mtnstyne:
The problem with silver spot price dropping is no one is selling. Last show I was at on 4 may all the dealers had their buy prices posted and only one was selling. The paper trades don't seem to mirror the physical market.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 18:27:36 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6712318#Post6712318 Posted by moejaber:
Hey! Newbie here! Wondering if you kind folks can help me out with grading this coin. Thanks a bunch! [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/20130521174322.jpg/][IMG]http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1723/20130521174322.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/20130521174017.jpg/][IMG]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4735/20130521174017.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And under a certain angle these "hairlines" appear. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:44 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6712159#Post6712159 Posted by SkyMan:
I recently found out about a novel use of fingerprints on silver medallions. As all coin collectors know, fingerprints will react with silver, and eventually etch their imprint. In 1971 Jim Irwin was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 15, and the 8th human to walk on the Moon. In his book To Rule the Night, Jim wrote "There were a number of things we left on the Moon purposely. I left some medallions, flat pieces of silver with the fingerprints of Mary and our children". That seems to me]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 17:16:50 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6711221#Post6711221 Posted by mtnstyne:
[url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCGS-MS68-2007-D-Montana-State-Quarter-Satin-Finish-SMS-/350543652092?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item519e07a4fc#ht_1789wt_1172]Satin Finish Label PCGS MS68[/url] [url=http://www.ebay.com/itm/2007-D-Montana-MT-State-Quarter-SP68-PCGS-Satin-Finish-Special-68-/290867186716?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item43b9090c1c#ht_1453wt_934]Same Label but SP68[/url] ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 12:28:09 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6711083#Post6711083 Posted by erwindoc:
A++ NGC! Thanks a lot on the help that you gave me on my recent issue.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 11:36:03 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6710595#Post6710595 Posted by Rudi Smits:
Interested in old Egyptian coins ? I found this link about the Ptolemy coinage : http://www.academia.edu/t/gudiC/3371350/Les_monnayages_des_Ptolemees]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 06:50:44 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6710567#Post6710567 Posted by BillJones:
Tin is a rarer metal than some people think. It probably goes back to the cliché "tin cans" which implies something that is common and cheap. Tin is not that common which probably explains why the government substituted zinc for it in the cents after WW-2. ]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 06:05:38 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6710437#Post6710437 Posted by FishyOne:
Buy ASE if you can get them for under $25/ea.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 01:19:22 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6710348#Post6710348 Posted by PonyPuller:
I'm looking for any information related to this medal which I recently acquired. At first glance, I thought it was a variant of the 1904 "America Welcomes The World" medal from the St. Louis World's Fair, listed as H-30-280 in the Hendershott reference. It has the same obverse (but in very sharp relief), however, the reverse is completely different. There is not text, and it only shows a wreath design. Overall, the strike is very sharp, with a mirror-like surface to the fields. The images,]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:40 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6709808#Post6709808 Posted by physics-fan3.14:
[quote=mumu]But this one threw me off. Its a dark side coin but I think the topic is a general concept. The coin is completely untoned/whitish. Not even a trace of color. The part that really got me was the color bunching that takes place at 6 o clock obverse near the star device there near the edge. How does a seller publish this? How do you look at that picture and say, OK thats close enough to what the coin looks like? I would not have even bid on this if not for the color. [/quote]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:24 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6709719#Post6709719 Posted by jom:
The problem with ICG I would imagine is what you see left in their holders. Why? Because if they DO correctly grade a coin how long do you think it takes from someone to crack it out and send it to NGC or PCGS? Once the coin is out of the ICG you will never know they correctly graded the coin, right? What is left out there are the mistakes for the most part. This coin I bought off eBay in an ICG MS68FB holder..I cracked it and sent it to PCGS a few years later where it came back at the sa]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 21:09:39 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6709235#Post6709235 Posted by BillJones:
Going by your pictures I would say that it is a solid MS-64, but a bit of a marginal R&B. The one good thing you can say about the color is that it is original and not enhanced. ]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:35 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6708772#Post6708772 Posted by johnny9434:
[quote=wheat'swheats]If they have a return policy, I would take them up on it. That is no where near gem. wheat [/quote] what wheat said.]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 15:10:28 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6708110#Post6708110 Posted by dena:
We are restarting the boards server this morning at 11am ET. Apologies for the inconvenience. ]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 10:04:41 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6707562#Post6707562 Posted by jwc:
thanks guys.]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 23:45:53 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6707198#Post6707198 Posted by johnny9434:
prices down thus far today. id love to see $15 again. ho hum ]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 21:51:33 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6707042#Post6707042 Posted by JOBESSI:
Very cool]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 20:58:30 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6706223#Post6706223 Posted by Mr James Walter:
I put in a silver Eagle set and now I can't find it anywhere I guess I need information on how to work this site]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 14:17:00 EDT http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6706134#Post6706134 Posted by FishyOne:
[quote=ArmyBud]Billjones.....I had to look at every one of your coins....what a great collection.... Bud [/quote] Thanks for the tip! I'll be looking too. The 1800 H10C DRAPED BUST, LARGE EAGLE in PCGS 64 is pretty awesome. Had to see if there were any finer there are 6) and Top Pop is a 68!]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 13:25:00 EDT