What follows is a distillation of many people's opinions and observations, including my own. Additions and corrections are welcomed. This document is copyrighted -- please don't republish elsewhere. HMTL version available he http://rg.ancients.info/guide. Counterfeit detection primer --...

The following will be an exercise of truth, and falsity, exposed, with sources cited. This is about whizzing, with the recent discussion about this until now in a thread about ancient coins titled "Ancient Coins: How to Start a Collection?" Whizzing, however, is primarily an issue affecting modern...

a friend of mine works at a bank and found 4 old design $20 bills (1977, 1985, 1988, and 1990) in reletively new condition, are they worth anything?

I spent some $2 bills, dollar coins and 2005 buffalo nickels at a White Castle in New York yesterday. This caused quite a stir and competition among the workers to buy up these denominations. One worker said he was buying the $2 bills because "they'll be worth something someday". I've heard this...

FROM: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-04-13-new-penny-higher-value_N.htm New penny's slow start in circulation increases value By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY The penny, often picked on for its piddly value, has found some self worth in 2009.

I went into a bank I frequent and there was a teller I did not recognize. As luck would have it, I ended up being served by him. I changed some Twos for MN quarter rolls. He was all excited about the Twos and proceded to tell me several things, without any prompting or input from me: 1) He works in...

My uncle gave me a "A Silver Story" a couple of years ago. It has a silver cert, 1 oz silver "nuggets", 1 morgan and 1 peace dollar. I haven't seen the rev of the coins since there is plastic over them. I have it on the mantle as it isn't expensive and it is nice to look at. My question is: ...

I'm holding a coin. One side bears an inscription, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1944. The other side says: FILIPINAS TWENTY CENTAVOS. Is it worth anything in the US or in the Philippines?

This was the title of an article in the Celator, a well-regarded and recommended publication about ancient coins, that I recently dug up at the library. It's an article from 1992 that's a translation of a 1968 article in French by M. Jean Mazard. I had hoped it would delve in detail into the...

PCGS offers a service whereby a certified coin can be verified online: http://www.pcgs.com/cert/Default.aspx?CertNo=&OrigUrl=%2fcert%2f Does ANACS offer such a service? http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx That page states that the first six characters of the barcode represent the...

I recently bought a crabtree mint product, a $1000 20 oz silver contract bar. Can anyone tell me anything about the Crabtree mint or about the silver contract. Can I truly go to the Crabtree Mint ( assuming it still exists) and cash it in for a thousand dollars?

I am doing some numismatic research at the moment and have come across a couple of handwritten letters on headed notepaper with the address "Collectors Research Limited, PO Box 111, Montreal, Quebec". They are signed by someone called "John" and almost certainly date to around the period...

What I have gleaned recently from this group but haven't verified with PCGS, is that PCGS somehow "guarantees" its grade so if the coin turns out to be a loser, they will compensate you. If that's the case, do the other services do this, too? If this is the case with PCGS (haven't waded through...

I'm needing some more information about this coin. It came into my possesion about 5-10 years ago through my family. The front side says "VTRAQUE VNUM" and has a mint mark of M with an O above it. Also dated 1732. Front has a picture of 2 globe looking objects with a crown on top and 2 colums on...

I have several roll of America the Beautiful, P, D, and S roll sets up for auction on ebay in mint sealed boxes. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283988500387

Subject: Counterfeit detection primer -- periodic post From: Reid Goldsborough Date: 11/8/2003 2:52 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: What follows is a distillation of many people's opinions and observations,...

Got a new coin yesterday; the birthday it commemorates is a fairly special one ... "Tintin and Snowy", or "Kuifje en Bobbie", or "Tintin et Milou", just got 75. Pretty good for such a young man - and even more so for a little dog. Here is a picture (not mine) of the coin and the...

Per this ebay seller the coin went from an SGS PR70CAM to a PCGS PR 64. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3927616795

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I sent this earlier but I never saw it post, so please forgive if it is a duplicate, but I'm also not seeing any replies. Can anybody give me a short course in how to tell a good, circulated reproduction of a liberty quarter from the real deal?