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Below is a list of almost 100 coin grading companies for informational purposes. Each page has pictures and information on each company. I encourage you to visit some of these pages as too many over graded coins are being sold on the Internet, and coin collectors are losing their hard earned cash, paying too much for inferior grade coins. Not only that, Numismatics in general suffers from most of these “basement” or “in-house” grading companies that are only interested in profits and not promoting a better and more trusting experience with grading coins and grading services in general.

 

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Recently, Heritage Auction Galleries released an interesting top ten list for the highest valued US Coins sold by Heritage with a details grade of AG or lower. (For collectors that don’t know, a coin assigned a grade and details like “AG details”, for example, is a coin that would grade AG but it has been cleaned or has an altered surface.)

The ten highest valued US coins sold by Heritage with a details grade of AG3 or lower:

1802 H10C NCS. AG Details, sold for $25,300.
1797 50C Fair 2 PCGS, sold for $20,701.
1794 1C Starred Reverse. S-48, B-28, R.5. AG3 NGC. Good 4 EAC, sold for $20,700.
1794 1C Head of 1794 AG3 PCGS, sold for $19,550.
1796 1/2 C With Pole AG3 PCGS, sold for $16,675.
1849 $5 Oregon Exchange Co. Five Dollar Fair 2 PCGS, sold for $14,950.
1796 1/2 C With Pole NCS. Fair Details, sold for $12,650.
1796 10C Fair Details, NCS. JR-7, R.8, sold for $11,500.
1802 H10C AG3 Details, NCS, sold for $10,350.
1802 H10C Fair Details, Net Poor 1, sold for $10,062.

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On September 22, the United States Mint gave collectors and the public a glimpse of the four different Lincoln cent reverse designs which will be used in 2009. Not only does 2009 hallmark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, it also marks the 100th anniversary of America’s most popular and favorite copper coin – the Lincoln cent.

The Lincoln cent coin has circulated throughout this country for almost a century. We have all spent or received this coin in change at one time or another and that would include our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on. In a few months, the defining moment will come and we will all have the opportunity to handle the new, redesigned Lincoln cents.

The U.S. Mint has not only successfully redesigned America’s most popular copper coin, but it has also strategically been able to introduce and redesign the coin in significant years – 1909, 1959 and now in 2009 – signifying important milestones of the coin and Abraham Lincoln himself.

The first of the four different reverse Lincoln cent designs will be released on February 12, which happens to be Abraham Lincoln’s birth date. The remaining three designs will subsequently be released throughout 2009. All four designs will display images of significant moments in Abraham Lincoln’s life. For more information about the new redesigned Lincoln cents you can log on to the U.S. Mint website at www.USMint.gov.