Author: Jay
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Great resource for grading paper money
If you’re like me and and don’t know squat about grading paper currency, this page is for you!! http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/grading.html I use it all the time to help me get a better ballpark… It’s like Grading Coins by Photograph – my favorite book! – only with paper money (and it’s free). It’s particularly helpful for lower…
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What’s the deal with this coin?!
Good morning! Long time! I was flipping through a friend’s trade binder last week and this 1896 South African 2 1/2 Shillings stood out to me. Yes, because I’m a sucker for toned silver and the guy is rocking a pretty impressive beard to boot!, but also because of it’s odd toning. If you look…
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Rare Mint Error Discovered on New 2024 Kennedy Half Dollar (!!!)
Just got this press releases emailed to me and had to share! Look at that star error – unbelievable! Here’s the full release below, courtesy of Jeff Flynt (thx man!) ****** Rare Mint Error Discovered on New 2024 Kennedy Half Dollar, Certified by PCGS as “Dropped Star Obverse” Fort Worth, TX – April 29, 2025…
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Dryer Coins For The Win!
Good morning, friends! Got an email from a friend wondering what the heck those coins are above (his subject line was literally: “Fake dimes?!”), and after being stumped for a few minutes I did some sleuthing :) Turns out, these aren’t actually fake coins at all – they’re 100% authentic! And they even have a…
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Custom Coin Board… Table! With Legs!
Good morning! So last week we showed off my new custom coin *board* that a friend of mine gave me in a trade, and as I was complimenting him on how helpful it’s been for me lately he shot me a picture of his latest creation… A custom coin board…. TABLE! With Legs! (See above)…
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Custom Coin Board!
Hello coin lovers! Picked up a pretty cool tool recently and thought I’d share :) It’s a custom coin board built by a friend of mine to make sorting easier! How cool is that?! He’s a huge *foreign coins* guy and routinely sorts though pounds worth of bags at a time, but was having trouble…
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What to Do With Fake Coins (and Are They Still Worth Anything?)
Good morning! So we’re a year late with this post, haha, but I still wanted to share because I found the whole process of figuring out I had fake coins on my hands, as well as WHAT TO DO WITH THEM afterwards?, super interesting. And my hope is that whenever YOU come across fake ones…
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1700s Mystery Coin?!
A new client of mine shot me a pic of this coin she inherited from her great grandfather (who once worked at a grist mill!), and I immediately had to stop what I was doing to research it ;) I didn’t get a pic of the obverse, but wanna take a guess of what it…
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An 1895 Fake Morgan and More!!
So I finally wrapped up evaluating that collection I mentioned in the last post, and wow – what a doozy! The collection itself was fine (approx. 10 hours spent which is normal for this amount of coins), but it was the last pile of “weird coins” I saved to research at the end that threw…
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The “Z” Collection
As promised, here’s that collection I was working on! I call it the “Z” Collection here, but in my documentation I actually have the client’s name swapped in the quotations which I like cuz it makes it feel more *personal*. And, of course, that’s how all the professionals in the space do it ;) You’ll…
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