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Recent acquisitions from John Hughey. Getting in the mood for Halloween….

 

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Shades of Ron Sanderson.....

 

Whoa! That's a beauty!

 

Can you explain to this ignorant person where you obtain these coins and where they come from? I have no idea.

 

Bought this week......seller's photos...... OGH's are interesting to me as well.

 

With this coin I need but one more to complete my set of silver classic commemorative coins. The one remaining coin to complete the silver set is a 1934 Boone with no date on the reverse. In the sliver coins I have one other Au-58, a Grant with Star.

Some purists might argue that my set is not complete as I do not have all the date runs with mintmarks of the Oregon Trail, Texas, Boone, Arkansas, Cincinnati, Booker T. Washington, and Carver/Washington coins. I do however have all of the varieties: 2x2, 2x4, star etc. I do not have the two Pan Pac $50 coins but I do have all the other classic gold commemoratives.

I could hold out for a higher grade Missouri but the prices escalate pretty quickly once you start getting into MS grades. Still, it's a pretty nice place holder.

 

Don't let anyone tell you how to collect Paul. Your set is your way......

 

In the words of the immortal Frank Sinatra, I did it my way.

 

Change from a smoke shop...

 

The drought is over...my first bustie since May. (And for me, that's a long time)

 

I was coming here to share some pics of my most recent bust half, but I'm not sure if I should now after seeing yours. Every time I put up a shiny coin I get told it's cleaned, polished, whizzed, dipped or whatever other atrocities people do to coins lol!

I'll post them anyways. I've got thick skin and I can still see some cartwheel on this one.

 

Nice looking Large Date, Small Letter 1834 O-105. IMO, probably looks more like top photos than the washed out looking second set.

As for other peoples critiques...keep on posting.

 

These are in the mail on their way to me.

PCGS-MS-62 Columbian half (1892)



and PCGS OGH Gen 1.2 MS-63 Albany

 

I don't think there's a right or wrong way to collect type sets. One of each coin type would be more than acceptable. If you get the varieties that's just icing on the cake. Every single date and mint mark is the cherry on top.

But either way you go, one of each type would technically qualify as a type set, so you'd be good to go. That's probably the way I'm going to go as I don't have the obsession some US collectors have with the tiniest of varieties....so for me a regular Grant is just as good as a Grant with a Star, etc.

 

Currently in the mail on its way to me....

 

Recently acquired in a GC auction. It's in an NGC AU-53 slab. This is an R-5 (30 to 75 known) die marriage 1831 LM-1.1.

The reverse on this coin was first used to strike 1831 LM-1.1, then 1830 LM-9.1, then 1831 LM-1.2, then 1830 LM-9.2, then 1831 LM-1.3 at which time a die crack and cud resulted in permanent removal from service.

Yes, some 1830-dated coins were struck in 1831. Which is why Red Book mintage figures for the early decades of the Mint aren't reliable.

The GC photo is a bit of a glamour shot. In hand, it doesn't look quite as nice.

 

A coin from an album I am breaking up and selling made its way into one of my many war nickel sets in Capital Plastics holders, a nice little toned 44-P.

 

The Pan-Pac is one of my favorite commemoratives. Nice pick up.

 

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