Conder101

No because for set registries you have to have slabbed coins and I am buying raw coins. It's just that in the series I collect they often don't come cheap, even in low grade.

No completely different reverse design Definitely a different type, not a die variety.

I'm with Kurt, my upper limit is my budget. So far the highest I've gone has been $6,000. (also the most expensive coin I have purchased)

Flowing hair half dollar, draped bust small eagle and draped bust heraldic eagle. Let me know when you get the draped bust small eagle.

It isn't missing the motto. It is most likely a die held over from 1865 used early in 1866 before the new dies with the motto arrived from Philadelphia.

It's actually a fake of a fake. This piece is a fake, and it is copied from a vampire hub counterfeit.

I always loved the term "Shipwreck Effect". A polite euphemism for "saltwater corrosion".

It's a result of the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. France lost and had to pay reparations of 5 billion francs to Prussia. Much a of it probably came as French gold.coin. These were melted down and struck into the Prussian coins. As you say there were 12 Million 10 Mark pieces struck in just two years 1872-73. You compare this to the 12 million struck from 1890-1912, that's 12 million over a 22 years period so no individual year had that many coins. So if the survival rates were relatively the same, there would be a lot fewer high grade coins from the 1890 - 1912 era available than from 1871-72.

It's the name of an investment corporation.

The 1968 might have a chance of some value if it get a CAM rating. CAM and DCAM proofs before 1973 are unusual not the norm. After 1973 proofs that AREN'T CAM are the unusual ones, but they aren't in demand because people like the CAM better.

In many, if not all cases, the milk spots developed or became visible after the coins were slabbed.

The letter says the 8 proof gold dollars were on hand, the other coins had to be struck "to order".

The first US coin to get a 70 grade was a 1964 proof cent. It got bid up to $40,000 but it had developed spots and PCGS withdrew their grade guarantee before it sold and made a private deal with the owner to get it off the market. The first circulation coin to get a 70 grade was a PCGS 1973 Lincoln cent. Which also subsequently developed spots.

The problem is on the DDO the 1's show strong notching at the bases and the upper end of the curl of the 9 does as well. The subject coin shows no thrace of that notching and in fact the bases of the 1's appear to be thinner than they should if the notching was just blurred by wear. I don't see anything that would convince me this is the 1917 DDO.

I get some hinky feelings about the holder but nothing I can put my finger on. I can't find anything definite I can point to that says the holder is definitely bad. But the early fake holder barcodes would not scan (That fact that entering the serial number works doesn't mean anything. And that is why NGC went to posting images of every coin slabbed.), and I think the coin is a little overgraded.