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It arrived today. here is my image .

 

Dolonega Gold is GREAT!

 

I’d agree, but replace “Dolonega” with Dahlonega and “great“ with pricey :-D

 

Just won this one for $1750. Can't wait to get it in hand.

 

I got bit by the Half Bug. But the first was a problem coin with a light and not too distracting graffiti or love token on the obverse (and what looks like an interrupted plan to hole the reverse.) [Edit-I mixed up another coin I was following with this one. No hole here] Neither seem harsh considering the detail.

The second is a first year Barber with some possible color toning.

I could use some help with attribution since I don't have literature for these series.

Both are seller's photos.

 

Oops! forgot to full image them before posting.

 

A different shot of the Obverse to show light graffiti.

 

This specimen is an MPD-004
WB 105 Breen 4885 you can see the bottoms of the two 8's in the rock R-2 premium factor 1.25xto 1.75 x

This obv. die has been paired with 2 reverses.
Xf $125

 

mpd 004
Then you have this one too!

 

Thank You. It looks like $85.37 wasn't a bad price, even with the graffiti.

 

Your Barber half is the Tripled Die Reverse. It's muddied up die to the amount of wear, but look at the lettering HALF DOLLAR at the bottom of the reverse.

 

+1

 

Here’s my latest Karl Goetz medal called “The Historical Golden Pen.”



THE HISTORICAL GOLDEN PEN
(Die Historiche goldene Feder)

1919, Cast bronze, Satirical medal, 59.4mm, 49.30g.

Obverse: A quill and the Treaty of Versailles is shown with the signatures of Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau along with two unknown Germans, Herman Mueller and Dr. Bell. Inscription, "von den Deutschen nicht benzut" (not used by the Germans), Dated, June 28, 1919. K G in exergue bisected by document and seal.

Reverse: A hand, labeled "Serajewo" and holding a burning torch, rises from the ground and sets the world on fire. Another hand, marked "Versailles", feeds the raging flames with a broken and dead peace palm. Inscription, "Gedenktag zweier Weltverbrechen" (A Day of Commemoration for Two World Crimes.)

To commemorate the assassination in Serajewo in 1914 and the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919, both events falling on the same day but five years apart.

Description from KarlGoetz.com

 

I’m like a few month in collecting coins and searching and looking for errors. Within the last month and don’t know if I’m lucky or they just aren’t sought after anymore. But I got 3 2019 West Point ATB quarters out of change machines. Are they still a good find or are they already thing of the past after a year

 

When I see stuff like this in circulation, I immediately think of two things. 1. Somebody inherited a collection and has no clue about their value or 2. They were stolen, either by strangers or family members.

Perhaps because my mother once sold off much of my dad's collection while suffering from manic-depression to buy us clothes she decided we needed (we didn't.) I think they would call it bi-polar now days.

She recovered and both she and my father became mental health advocates before it was virtuous. My father eventually served as President of the Texas Mental Health Association in 1976 and my mother helped secure funding for Project Daybreak, a facility for children with emotional disorders.

They made lemonade from lemons.

 

It would be interesting to know the backstory of Josie E. Roff and the significance of July 12, 1863. There's nothing from a quick search on the web where some genealogical record are sometimes posted.