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  1. Boy Howdy - I gotta look around this place more often. Never even noticed this area for some reason Anyway - thought you folks might find this link useful. It's an auction tracker for ancient and world coinage Coin Archives.com
  2. Would it happen to look like this ?
  3. I gotta ask a question - how in the world have I missed this ? I mean, according to Mike's welcome post it's been here since August The only reason I found it now is because I read about it this month's Numismatist and said to myself - Huh - the NOW forum ?? On CoinPeople ?? Well anyway - I found it, better late than never I guess
  4. If I'm reading that date correctly as 1788 - then that mint mark should be MA - not just plain M. Is the A there but faint ? As for pricing - I'd say it is about $150 too much.
  5. I think that's only because very people even know they exist.
  6. No - it's not taken for granted for them to be FBL or not. The reason the designation is not used is because they are Proof coins. And such designations are just not used for Proof coins - ANY Proof coins.
  7. Looks like verdigris to me - get some biox.
  8. Will probably surprise more then to learn that none of the TPG graders wear gloves when grading coins.
  9. You're right they don't - they send the coins out to be graded by others.
  10. The FBL designation is not used on Proof examples - only on business strikes.
  11. NGC and PCGS both have stated plainly that they would be more than happy to certify these coins or any others of questionable legality.
  12. For many years I used to consider modern as post '64. That's about the time that most of the world quit using silver in their coins. So it seemed a logical point in time to me. But in the past few years as my collecting switched to world coinage I began to have a different outlook. I began to consider coinage since its inception 2500 + or - years ago. Given that - there are 3 basic periods. Ancient - Medieval & Modern - with Modern being post 1500. Strangely enough this is how most European numismatists view it as well. But as with anything else, the perception of time changes with its passing. For example, in 1500 the coinage of the time WAS modern. But to many today 500 years seems an almost unimaginable length of time. But in the scheme of things as a whole in regard to coinage - it's only 20% of the elapsed time. So it all depends on how you wish to look at it. Would you call the lightbulb or the telephone a modern invention ? How about nuclear physics or the airplane ? They all seem pretty modern to me. But they all happened before or near the turn of the century - the last century. I think perhaps the reason that Europeans choose 1500 as a dividing time line is because it does present a new time in the world. One that co-incides with the discovery of the New World. For after that - everything changed.
  13. Best coin insurance program I know of - ANA Insurance
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