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- Gilted or Gilded? — Collectors Universe
Looking up the definition this morning, I find it spelled both ways Gilted and Gilded
- 1883 LIberty nickel Cents vs. No Cents Values and why
Coin collecting (or hoarding) was more common at the time than most collectors would suspect since all we really hear about these days are the well known and wealthy collectors of the gilded age
- Newp: Bryan-Mckinley Mechanical dollar-Images inside!
"Mechanical "broken eagle dollar" promoting William McKinley for president and Theodore Roosevelt for vice president and disparaging William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson, 1900
- Mexico 1732 milled 8 reales simply AMAZING provenance Stacks Bowers . . .
MEXICO 8 Reales, 1732-Mo F Mexico City Mint Philip V PCGS Genuine--Harshly Cleaned, AU Details Lot Description MEXICO 8 Reales, 1732-Mo F Mexico City Mint Philip V PCGS Genuine--Harshly Cleaned, AU Details KM-103; Cal-1437; Yonaka-M8-32A (this coin illustrated) Variety with three upper bands on right pillar Struck in the inaugural year of milled coinage in Mexico, this RARE Pillar
- The U1chicago Chicago token collection — Collectors Universe
Given my username, it would follow that I would be attracted to tokens related to Chicago So here I present the small subset of my collection now known by the super creative moniker of "U1chicago Chicago token collection" The mainstay and the one that started it all is the C D Peacock
- The true origin of the racketeer nickel. . . or is it?
using gilded nickels for fraudulent purposes in 1883-85 that the Tatum story would certainly have circulated in the popular press if it had been at all widely known LeRoy Burnette, "Comments on Coins," Lima News (Lima, Ohio), June 24, 1961, p 31, contains a lengthy discussion of the "racketeer's nickel" (a term that was already in
- Fairmont Collection of Liberty Double Eagles - Page 3
This type of information was provided in great detail for the Gilded Age collection of mint state double eagles sold by Stack’s-Bowers several years ago Does anyone have any information on the Fairmont Collection that can be shared?
- Help with German grading standards — Collectors Universe
I recently bought the standard reference work 'Die Deutschen Munzen seit 1871' by Jaeger My reading comprehension with respect to colloquial and business German is pretty good But, wow, I really needed my dictionary's help for a technical field such as numismatic grading In carefully re-reading the grading standards in the book, am I correct in concluding that Stufe 1 (polierte Platte) means
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