Post your under $50.00 purchase...

It just barely makes it to the rim on the left. But the right side over by the 1 is just spectacular. I'm going to try an experiment and see if I can capture what I see in the displaced field. I'll start a thread for it, so as not to hijack my own thread.

 

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I just love this thread. Every time I see new posts it makes me want to go out look for new stuff.

 

Hey! I resemble that remark. I'm looking for a '64 quarter.

 

Sweet pick Ben..... you know I do need another.....lol Can't Believe that I sold it by mistake

 

Wait until you see these focus stacked images of this die crack/break. I'm calling it the "Great Wall of George".

 

Reminds me of a brick property dividing "wall" I repaired/built (there was an old row buried about 2 inches deep) for my grandmother about ten years ago. Built it three bricks high (according to her specs) and dubbed it the Great Wall of Belleville.

 

Been doing a lot of under $50 purchases lately. No particular reason other than I am in a higher quantity over higher price phase right now. Here are some of my April pickups...

 

I bought this one for $17.05 because its cool and I think I see a rim burr on the lower obverse and the reverse has something going on with the rim too...

I paid $42.16 on this one because, well you will know when you see it...

 

$30. And it's now a new VAM discovery of mine, VAM 80A

 

OK you really suck....

 

Speaking of new varieties, I recently purchased a 1787 Massachusetts Cent for $30 in about G-4 grade. At first glance, it looks like there's a small mark on the eagle's neck. Turns out, when I got it checked out, it was a new variety I then named "The Thanksgiving Variety"

Sadly, My camera is broken and it can only take really blurry pictures

 

Where'd you find that?

 

When I was at a local coin show, I saw it in a "mixed old coin bin" which were all labeled $10. But when I picked the coin up, the dealer stopped me and asked to see the coin. He cracked a smile and said "This one will cost ya $30" Still being a cherry picker's white whale, I took the deal

 

So all I need is a Brillo pad and I can start making new VAM's too?

Nice pick and congrat's on another new VAM.

 

Sure. If you have a time machine and become a mint worker in the 1800s tasked with polishing the dies

 

Bought this raw for $50 a few months ago and just got it back from the plastic factory

 

Sherman set the way back machine to 1878 San Francisco . ....
I'm going to create a Monster Vam and then travel to 2017 and rub it in Justin ' s Face!

 

BTW....Sherman put a Brillo pad or two in your pockets . ....

 

I'm going to go back and have a few Morgans struck on nails.

 

I think railroad spikes....would be a better choice....