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Here are 2 that I've won recently on eBay.

Sellers pics.

XF-45 Barber Half




XF-40 Capped Bust Quarter




Both are in problem free slabs, but I feel like the barber has had an old cleaning at one point with those hair lines all over the place.

 

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Awesome, thank you so much!

 

some new Jeffersons I just got

 

This thing is ridiculous Dexter.
Ridexulous!

 

OK, I think my Seated Dollar posted pretty good. I have better pictures of my 1902 Indian Head and 1857 Half Dime.


I took them in the sun so there may be too much of a shine.

 

Just arrived from jm bullion. More for my silver stack.

 

1959-1964 Jefferson Nickel Proofs. So I finally finished my set of colorfully-toned PCGS-blessed Jefferson Nickel Proofs from the 1959 to 1964 time period. The grade of each coin is written under the date. All the coin images are resized TrueView photos, which were shot with the coins out of the slab allowing an unobstructed view. The years 1959 and 1963 were the toughest to find nicely toned.

 

1959-1964 Lincoln Cent Proofs. It's interesting comparing the colors in the Jeffersons (above) with the colors found in the same era in Lincolns (below). There is an extra coin on the top row of this Lincoln Cent Coinboard that covers the Small Date / Large Date Variety in 1960. It's easy to forget that Five Cent coins (Nickels) are actually mostly copper (75% copper and 25% nickel). One Cent coins in this era were 95% copper and 5% tin/zinc. So it's not too surprising that the toning might tend in similar directions in these two denominations with the composition of both coins mostly copper.

 

nice color on those nickels. last time I was at a coin show in Las Vegas they had this all purple proof nickel they wanted $600.00 for..... i said yikes. to high.

 

Yes, that's way too high a price.
You can find these on eBay for sometimes as low as $10 to $30 (for raw coins especially),
but certainly less than $85 or so (especially for the already graded examples).

Here are my purchase prices for the Jefferson's above ...
all were bought on eBay (except for the 1963, which was a gift coin from robec) ...

1959 = $75.00 (in mint cello)
1960 = $85.00 (already PCGS graded)
1961 = $25.00 (raw)
1962 = $20.50 (in mint cello)
1963 = free (raw)
1964 = $12.00 (raw)

Avg Cost = $36.25 each

The best bargain of the bunch (I suppose) was the 1964 which I bought for a song, has some crazy great and unusual color, and graded out with a monster PR67 grade. But certainly you can't beat free on the 1963, which has as deep and intense a blue color as I think I've ever seen on a PCGS-graded Nickel.

So it is possible to have some fun in numismatics without spending a whole lot.

 

Here's some closeups of the '54 Franklin toned proof I got the other day. Some really interesting colors on the reverse:

 

Got this with my eBay bucks today! PCGS AU53!

 

Very nice!

 

It's hard to follow a nice AU Half, but here is mine that just came in the mail today.

 

more new Jeffersons, coming to my home for the holiday

 

and these two

 

one is a 1886 O and the other is a 1889 O, got em for 95 for both today.

 

1 more from yesterday's mail, a 1942 S silver Jeff

 

First 3 cent piece yesterday! 1868 in VF-15. Can't take pics right now family is visiting for a few weeks

 

just wanted to post to see how the photo works