WAYS OF FINDING SILVER COINS Only coin collectors know about this; but you can still find 40% silver-clad half dollars in circulation today. Here is how. Go to banks or savings and loan companies, and buy...
chinese crooks have a new way to sell their counterfeit trade dollars: FAKE SLABS! look out for so-called certified coins from china that have a meaningless bar code, and no attribution. the counterfeit trade...
IF THIS GUIDE IS HELPFUL PLEASE VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you're looking at this guide that means you want free money, and dont we all. But you do have to work for it. How? By going through rolls of coins...
If the Slabs Lie, DONT BUY!!! That's easy enough. If you have been buying slabbed and certified coins for years, this guide will not be helpful, but if you are fairly new to the certified coin world, please...
1955 Philadelphia "Bugs Bunny" or "Detached Nose" Franklin Half Dollar A die clash resulted in the production of an unusual U.S. Mint error coin. This error is commonly known as the "Bugs Bunny" Franklin or,...
This guide will hopefully help you to become better at assigning grades to Walking Liberty Half Dollars. I am not an expert, and this guide is by no means "the law". I will give a rough guideline on what...
In today's electronic marketplaces, the opportunity to acquire coins without having to travel great distances has never been so great. Unfortunately, the opportunity for some to fool or cheat the public has...
Recently someone purchased 6 Trade Dollars at a yard sale , and asked if I would take a look at them . I weighed them , and only found one to be within the correct weight limitations . It was an 1874 CC with...
After reading the article about the problem with over-grading Coin grading services such as NNC and SGS, it reminded me of my purchase experience on EBAY. The coins that I bid on and won were a date and mint...
The first Kennedy Half dollar was minted in 1964. Both the Philadelphia and the Denver mints produced enormous numbers of these coins for circulation. As soon as the coins became available to the public...