Very cool! The only coin in our family is one from my grandpa he found when he was closing up the store he worked at as a teenager in the 1930s and held onto and passed down. Before learning about coins a bit all I knew was that it was a gold coin and allegedly very valuable (my parents thought it was worth 8k...not quite!) but now that I've educated myself a bit I saw it the other day it's a 1904 double eagle that has been cleaned about 100 times and is mounted exposed on a necklace. lol welp, it's not quite 8k but definitely one I'll hold onto forever.
Arrived today. The 1901-P jumps in price to AU58 and quickly zooms to the moon in MS grades. Likely a casualty of World War I melting.
I really like the look of that 03. I've found myself shifting my collection to nice circulated examples like that. I'm just getting bored with the MS stuff and need a little variety in my life.
That's exactly what I'm doing with the Dansco albums, nice VG to VF examples with some cool VAMs peppered in there. Chris knows the '03-O is an empty slot for me and the subject of several of my rants.
And it's a completely ignored, undesirable date/mm with no interesting backstory either. Smh. . . Why even waste your time with that post, Cascade?
It would be a quite a moment in the Morgan forum, if you followed it up with a circulated F- VF 1899. That would be too perfect.
Wow look at that attractive lady! MS65 huh? It seems that's a "classic 65" which would grade a bit higher (66+ ?) today. PS: just figured that back then there were no other grades