2016 Fall PNNA Show haul!! I got some great coins today.

Well I have been looking forward to the 2016 Fall PNNA show here in Portland. It finally got here and I had a great time! Met and chatted with a fellow CU Forum member and discussed his 1919 DDO Mercury Dime that he picked up in an album off of eBay a while back. I did a lot of bargain hunting. I really need to start to memorize my VAM's there were just so many opportunities to look at Morgan's.

So here is the haul...

My first Half Dime purchase. She is a knockout. If anyone can tell me the Fortin number on this I would be very grateful. It has a very nice Repunched date, you can see it in the 1 and 0 very well.



Up next are a few goodies I snagged out of a half off bin.

For $7.50 it's hard to turn down a nice looking '64 Kennedy.


This 1941 Washington Quarter I think has a good shot at MS-66. It was marked $15.00 and was half off.


And this 1943 just had to come home with me. It is hands down the nicest looking Washington I have come across not in a slab already. The mark through the M in UNUM is a small die crack. I think it has a serious shot at MS-67. It was marked for $35.00 and was half off.


This next one was a steal for just $5.00!! It's an incredible 1909 Lincoln woodie with iridescent toning and a folded lamination on the reverse. Those blues, reds, purples and yellows are only visible at just the right angle. It almost looks like someone melted a box of Crayon's and poured the wax into a cast of a 1909 Lincoln Cent.

 

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I'd give you double for the Lincoln and no Mods, it's not a serious offer

 

This 1971-D Eisenhower was a pick-up that made me think of @Cascade. It's a nice FEV that came home with me for $3.50


And finally, this might have been my best buy of the day. A 1953-S Franklin Half that under a loupe has uninterrupted full bell lines.


When I got home, this beauty was waiting for me in my mail box. That line going down her neck is a rim to rim die crack.

 

All great choices Justin the H-10 tickles my fancy. She's sweet. Next would be the 1909 Lincoln man what a nice find. All the specimens are top of the mark coins.

 

Thanks. That Half Dime just called to me. The 2x2 was marked as AU-58, but looking at it under magnification I just could not see any rub at all. It's not my series but man, you just can't walk away from that, otherwise someone else would.

 

What I do?

 

The H-10 is a Valentine #3 Breen # 3099 plainly repunched 1,0 Breen lists it as a Valentine #4 that may have been updated after Valentine book was out of print.
Mintage 799,000+535 proofs a 1000 proofs were struck only 535 were sold,balance was melted.

 

Well as a collector of H-10 ' s I would of been on this one like a duck on a June bug!

 

Slapping myself right now for not looking at the Washingtons.
I did score a few full step Jeffersons though so all is well.

 

You got me into looking for Ike varieties. They are much easier to memorize than the VAM's, but not nearly as lucrative.

Thanks for the info Paddy. I tried to find info on it when I got home, but could not find anything using a Google search.

Would you say it's MS or AU? I know it's hard to say using images.

 

I alway's look at the Washington's, there are so many varieties to be found and you never know what you're going to find. I need to start looking at Jefferson Nickels. I saw a few today in cases that caught my eye, but I didn't take a closer look.

 

VAMs are easy man

 

Maybe to you. But to me, it's like trying to memorize the Japanese dictionary. I do have the Top 100 VAM book to start studying though.

 

There are more VAMs than Sheldon and Overton varieties combined... For 1878, 1879, and 1880 alone.

 

Yup

 

On a side note, after the show today, I ate at a pizza place in Portland called Hotlips. 1888-O VAM-4 anyone?

 

I know of the place. That would be a great logo for pizza place. Half Morgan with doubled lips and the other half a pizza..

 

Nice picks! I really like that '40-s Merc, I saw one about a year and a half ago and had to have one. The example I have is a different obverse die though. SuperDave posted one last year that is different yet, so there are at least 3 cracked obverse dies for that date.

 

Dang, that strike on the 53S Franklin is amazing! It would definitely not FBL at NGC, but I think you may have a chance (worth trying at least once) at PCGS. There is a bit of weakness around the crack that may hold you back, but that is a strong strike on a 53S.

 

I think your right. There is just a bit of weakness immediately to the right of the bell crack. Knowing the kind of premium a FBL designation comes with this particular year and MM, I have my reservations of whether PCGS would designate it FBL. I personally think the coin would grade a 64 and if they designated it a MS64 FBL they would be on the hook for around $9000.00 for a guarantee. Knowing my luck with PCGS, It wouldn't get the designation. The right submitter might be able to get it, but it's still questionable.