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This arrived today. 1832 Capped Bust Quarter mintage 320,000.

You don't see very many of these available in any condition.

I think this one had initials scratched into the Obv. and then was polished in the fields to try to eliminate them.

Any way I got this one because it is from the year my Great Great Grandfather was born in Ohio.

 

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Terrific coin and I like your very happy smiley with the mail truck.

 

Nice story. I can see why you wanted the coin!

 

There is a small convenience store in the apartment complex I used to live in. I got to know the owner while I lived there, and he stuck back any coin larger than a quarter that he received for me. I got lucky and got a 40% Kennedy (1968) one day and I got an Ike but it was mostly post-1970 halves that he stuck back for me. Today I was visiting my friend who still lives in that complex and walked to the store to buy a Coke. The owner wasn't there, instead a woman was working there. I heard her talking to another lady behind the counter and it was obvious her English wasn't very good. She rang up my Coke and I asked her if she had any "big coins" and she said "yes". I thought she just didn't understand me at first. I was thinking maybe she had a clad Kennedy or possibly an Ike if I was lucky. She pulled out a large coin and my heart started racing. I thought it was an Ike (which would have still made me happy) but my jaw hit the floor when I saw that it was an 1884-O Morgan! I said "I want it!" and gave her 4 quarters for it. It is obviously nowhere near AU condition but has a tad bit of yellowish toning. This beats any of the finds I made at my old job at the convenience store by a long shot. I'm still in shock but I'm buzzing. I'm guessing it's VF or XF, what do you think? Is it worth from $30-$40? This was the find of a lifetime.

 

Sweet lowball in the mail today

 

Its hard to believe that a commemorative today would ever see that kind of wear. Nonetheless, given the time period, 50 cents was A LOT of money, and four years later the Great Depression began. When you needed food and shelter in the 1930s, the coins meant more to keep body and soul together than keeping the collection.

 

Upgraded from my PCGS MS66+ CAC certified example too this NGC MS67RD CAC certified example. PCGS grades 24 in MS67RD with none higher, NGC grades 8 in MS67RD with none higher and CAC certifies 3 in MS67RD with none higher

 

The Stone Mountain half holds a special place in my heart because my dad bought two of them back in the '70s and gave one to me and one to my sister. Mine is in better shape than yours is (maybe XF or even a low AU) but congratulations on your fine coin.

 

Here's mine:

 

I collect coins like this not because I agree with the politics of the country at the time it was minted (if I did that I wouldn't collect a lot of American coins) but as a stark reminder that the Nazi regime's atrocities and the Holocaust were very real. An ocean and 70 years separate us from Hitler and his thugs' actions and insulate us from Nazi Germany and its Axis allies, but coins like this are like a connection to the past and its horrors. I am part Jewish, so this especially hits home, although my Jewish ancestors emigrated to the US centuries ago and I didn't lose any family members in the Holocaust. When I see it I think "how could the Germans fall for Hitler's rhetoric and how could they allow such evil to go on" and that it could happen here in America someday. I also collect Soviet coins for the same reason (remember, Stalin was responsible for more deaths than Hitler.) If anybody else here collects Nazi coins I hope they collect them for the same reasons.

On a lighter note, is there a mintmark on this coin? I know some German coins had mintmarks but I can't find one on this one. Also, my camera got gold and silver confused when I took this picture. It's actually a silver coin.

 

The A behind his neck is the mintmark, A = Berlin

 

Price was about right for the coin, but not for the grade on the holder. Still nicer than what I have.

 

Here's a nice cheap pickup




I love coins like this. Almost 150 years old, silver, original, slabbed and graded, and foreign to boot.

All for under $35 delivered.

MS-64 Small White ANACS

 

received this thing today. took some quick pics.

 

Thats nicer than a 58 I was eye-balling

 

thank you trey.
she's a little worn on her chest and hair.