66. I'm not a big fan of toning, but the obverse looks nice.
Does it bother you that they might have been stolen from someone's collection? I'm not saying it should, just wondering how you feel about that...
With all the hits on it, I can see why it got MS61. I would have thought it would maybe be an AU55 at best.
Your photos don't do the coin justice. I was going to say AU58, but obviously I wouldn't say that about the TrueView picture.
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Bust of Jefferson? Surely it's a bust of Lincoln.
Seems to me you can see where the plating has come off to expose the steel beneath on the right side of the obverse. That would be a clue, but...
Mine has several pages that have separated from the binding, but I've used it a good bit over the years. I got a copy from David Bowers, I think,...
Don't assume that anything that looks different on an "old" cent is an error.
Just a note from an old statistics professor: Reliable means you get the same or similar results each time, whereas valid means it measures what...
I use the Breen book for colorful comments about coin design when I'm writing a coin article. For example, you should see what he has to say about...
Do you mean unkempt?
Did a search today for F-VF 1909-S VDBs on eBay for something I'm writing. I found several decent examples for less than $900. They were all...
I've dealt with DLRC for many years and even did some writing for them back when the real David Lawrence (David Feigenbaum) was still alive. He...
DLRC has a lot of coins on eBay; I don't know about the other two I mentioned.
Three online dealers I've found to be quite reputable are Northeast Numismatics, Sarasota Numismatics, and Empire coins. Another good outfit is...
I'm sorry to see here that you can't use it in coin purchases because that's pretty much all I've been interested in.
Your coin is a nice 1969-S and still worth 1c any day.
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