The Latin motto around the pig being shot means, "Either death or life is beautiful": [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I bought this in 1961 from a dealer who took it from an unused pack of 100. The foxing is actually from the ink of the bill...
Better than the fake given to me (we both knew it was fake): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The engraving is better than most of the regular issues.
I'll believe it when I see it. Cents have cost more to produce than they are worth since the 1970s. Although not worth much, they are backed by...
I've always thought that the idea that there are eight bits in a byte in computers comes, at least subconsciously, from the eight bits in a...
Have you compared weight to a known brass one of the same size?
H, Heaton Mint (a bit damaged, found it in a dealers "12-for-a-dollar" junk box)[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
London Mint: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This was given to me a couple of years ago by a friend. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] If only it were not counterfeit! Oh, well... This was given to me...
I remember the term being used when I was a child, as in when hopping off the barber's chair he would say, "That'll be six bits!" After almost a...
Bank of Lower Canada Bank Token, 2 sous/1 penny, 1837. Rather worn, but the only one I have.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's what it looks like. Any idea where you acquired them? Almost all WWI and WWII POWs have now left us, but there might be some left who...
My dollars all seem to be shrinking.
Very true, but, since most people don't know that, it sometimes happens and the victim doesn't know he or she can keep the cents and still take...
Certainly a weak strike, and possibly some grease. A great example of the mint's difficulty in striking them. I agree with the XF 40, but the...
Same reasoning as the 3cent coins. It was used for postage stamps. Also, paper instead of coins because coins were horded in the Civil War and...
This does not have old Ben on it, but he is reputed to have come up with the design: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Most of my coins have been "thrifty." From circulation, dealer "junk" boxes, flea markets, etc. Here is one of four identical ones I was given...
I'd grade MS66 6FS, but it might go 67. It's a beautiful coin.
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