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Still, a beautiful coin..........now you have to figure out how you want to 'display' it. To bring out its' best features. I've seen guys using camera phones to feature their coins in amazing fashion.........@WingedLiberty

 

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This is an MS64 PCGS and I think under-graded based in the number of reverse stars that are visible and the lack of bag marks.

Also the folds of Lee's coat are all visible and you rarely see this below MS66.

http://www.stonemountainhalf.com/35741486_64.html

 

What is the story, I wonder, behind a circulated Commemorative?

In 1926, this was a new issue and sold for $1.00. As such, you would expect it to be put aside instead of spent (losing both the enjoyment of the coin and the .50 premium paid).

But the Great Depression came along just a few years later. Maybe that 50 cents face value looked pretty good compared to holding onto a pretty coin.

I would expect all of these to be uncirculated, but NGC has about 35 of these graded AU 58 compared to 1500 in MS 64-65. Eventually, someone found it and set it aside again. It's still ungraded today.

In this case, the devices are accented by a bit of dirt that gives some contrast. I like the effect and wonder about the past.

 

I have had this question before and decided that commemoratives were just different back in the day. They were issued as fundraising ideas for specific projects and purchasers might not have been coin collectors but just supporters of the effort. They might carry them as pocket pieces or stored them in ways that resulted in a circulated condition. In the case of the Stone Mountain Halves many companies bought large quantities and passed them out in promotions or gave them in change. Times were just different I guess.

 

I'll bet (one of the) best parts of a coin like this is the price!! It's a beautiful design, and now affordable!!

 

OLD LABEL...

Figured this could get a 66 or a CAC.

 

That’s a beauty, love the color! Neat that they gave it a plus too, I think that’s the first 55+ I’ve ever seen.

 

I think whenever a coin gets a plus grade, it's because the graders disagreed, so the plus is a way to meet in the middle.

 

1916 Buffalo Nickel graded MS64 by NGC

 

Not a heavy hitter but an MS 65 war Nickel - and I’m into the die crack on the back

 

I just ventured out of my Large Cents and picked up this Morgan. I initially liked the apparent toning and then as I looked closer I saw numerous die cracks on both the obverse and the reverse which made me feel at home.



Help finding the VAM would be appreciated.

 

Standing by for key date NEWPS......

 

I picked this up at the Tri-State Monthly Coin & Stamp Show,in Langhorne, PA today.
I didn't find anything I was looking for but I found this interesting item.

 

Found some nice items over the past few weeks. All these coins and bills were used to purchase items in retail or to pay tolls

Found over 50 wheat pennies (only some shown) including a steel 1943
Found 6 proofs (4 quarters and 2 nickels), No silver




5 silver dimes, 3 war nickels and a Buffalo nickel



10 silver quarters



I'll post the bills in the forum: Paper Money: New Acquisitions

 

$140. Coin shop dealer called it "AU."

 

$157.50. Cool Overton variety with very weak strike characteristics.

 

Nice looking 106...a die marriage that almost always seems to be under-graded due to strike characteristics caused from a mis-aligned die.

 

I already post this coin on the thread about cleaning coins using acetone, but, I go to show it again here.

 

I have highlighted the diagnostics as I see them without any knowledge of the VAM diagnostics.