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A basic lesson will help you always catch fakes, like this 1895-O Morgan Dollar, which could be deceptive to many. In high school history class, a student asks his teacher, "Do I need to memorize dates for tomorrow’s test?" The teacher replies, "No dates."
Encouraged, the young student goes home and studies hard, following the teacher’s instruction. The next day he fails the test. Miserably ...
Full Article: Counterfeit Detection: Pass the Test - NGC
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NGC graders are fortunate to have seen more coins than anyone, but they always take time to appreciate truly special coins. The unexpected encounter with this 1872-CC $20 is one such example.
Wholly original and beautifully struck, it was instantly recognizable as the finest our graders had ever seen. It graded MS62 ...
Full Article: From the Grading Room: Highest Graded 1872-CC $20 - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
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NGC will offer on-site grading and encapsulation at the Whitman Baltimore Coin & Collectibles Expo Thursday, March 4 (during dealer setup) and Friday, March 5. Please check with NGC show representatives for daily submission cut-off times. NGC will be at tables 1302-1306. NGC will be offering ...
Full Article: NGC Grading On-site at Whitman Baltimore Coin & Collectibles Expo - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
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Every year I write a letter to all NGC submitters to describe what’s happening at NGC. Communication is a very important part of what we do — we see NGC as being directly responsive to the wants and needs of the numismatic community. In no small part, it’s because of this responsiveness that NGC has grown to become the largest rare coin certification company in the world. In fact, we are literally only days away from certifying our 20 millionth coin!
Before I get ahead of myself, I’d like to look back at 2009. We did so many things last year that I’m just going to get to it…
Full Article: NGC Chairman Mark Salzberg's 2009 Observations, 2010 Outlook - CoinNews
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This month, David W. Lange continues recalling a pivotal year in the history of United States coinage, with part four in his series.
Until 1834, United States gold coins were largely unknown to the American people. The weight standard established in 1792 for gold was seemingly correct at that time, but shifts in the metals market a few years later made such pieces worth more as bullion ...
Full Article: USA Coin Album: The Coinage of 1837, Part Four - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
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David Vagi continues his discussion of some of the most important issuers of Roman coins in the second of a multi-part series.
This month we advance our survey to include eight more Roman notables. Only five of these men held the title of ...
Full Article: Ancients: Famous Romans You Can Collect: Part II - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
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David Vagi continues his discussion of the designs of select ancient Greek coins in the third of a multi-part series.
We now advance our survey of Greek silver coins to Asia Minor and the Levant, areas now mainly occupied by the nations of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Though not part ...
Full Article: Classic Greek Coins: Part III - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
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NGC has certified a Zachary Taylor Presidential $1 coin that bears the date 2010 D. The Zachary Taylor coin was the fourth Presidential dollar released in 2009 and should correctly bear the date 2009, not 2010. This is the first time that the wrong date has been reported on an edge-lettered US dollar.
The date on each ...
Full Article: Misdated Presidential Dollar Excites Error Collectors - NGC
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I’ve starting working on the third edition of my Dahlonega gold coin book. One of the first things I’m doing in looking at PCGS and NGC population figures in order to help establish overall and comparative rarity levels for each issue from this mint.
I’ll be writing an occasional article about each denomination as I get there. Instead of writing long, drawn-out studies, I thought it would be best to ...
Full Article: Population Figures of Type One Dahlonega Gold Dollars - RareGoldCoins.com
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