With the plummeting price of silver, the 2014 Red Book might be a little outdated.
I have a lot of large cents, but most of them aren't this nice.
The details are awfully good on this coin, it seems to me.
Thank you for your comments.
[ATTACH][ATTACH] How would you grade and value this? It looks to me like it's been cleaned.
I just bought this on eBay. There is a little scrape at about 9:30 on the reverse. How would you grade it and what do you think it is...
I'm slowly starting to become fond of the handful of Barbers I have.
Apparently it was Robert W. Woolley, who was director of the mint from March of 1915 to July, 1916.
In 1916 they came out with the Mercury dime, standing liberty quarter, and walking liberty half. Whoever was responsible should be designated as a...
In 1916 they came out with three beautiful coins: Mercury dime, standing liberty quarter, and walking liberty half.
Live and learn.
Your cent looks better than a lot of my cents.
Sort of.
I wanted to see if this was true and found this: http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/f/coin_portraits.htm So maybe there never was a law passed...
I think maybe congress passed some law long, long ago that all coins were supposed to have presidents on them.
Who decided there had to be an eagle?
Oh yeah, I remember where I was.
Walkers are great coins.
They should start the series up again.
Thanks.
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