and find an EF 1913 Barber half for my grandson's 100 year old birth set and an affordable 1813 bust half for his 200 year birth set
selling the rest of my half cents to pay for the 911 I just bought, then spending what's left over (if any) on Comity Americana medals
It's at the Boston Public Library
The actual Comita Americana medal sizes vary: Geo. Washington ~69 mm Gates ~56 mm Wayne ~55 mm deFleury ~46 mm Lee ~45 mm Stewart ~46 mm Morgan...
As others have said, the Pewter versions are quite cheap. You shouldn't pay more than a few dollars for any of them. Original Comita Americana...
North American origin: 1773 VA half penny US Mint: 1793 Chain Cent
The 1795 Draped Bust $ (BB-51) is a heavily counterfeited coin, with several different counterfeits known. Michael Fahey did an article around...
The NLG site has a link to their awards http://www.coinbooks.org/about/awards.html. For some reason, the ANA site doesn't work (right now).
Book Awards. I believe the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) http://www.coinbooks.org as does the ANA.
If you are into early copper, http://www.eacs.org/GradingGuide/GradingGuide.html
the one thing you have to remember is that gold and silver bullion are commodities and are subject to not-insignificant price swings over a medium...
I like this idea. And having the sizes approximate the original coins makes it very attractive. wonder what the target prices will be? The only...
Fake. There are multiple diagnostics (e.g, the shape of the 8, where the ribbon points, etc) that show that this is not an 1811 (neither Cohen-1...
You might also want to look at the following: “Pricing Relationships of United States Type Coinage”, The American Journal of Numismatics Second...
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