Long, long belated reply (more than a year late!): hey, that is a really sweet holey 1853 quarter! The hole position isn't perfect, but wow, what...
BTW, here's my 1871 filler. :) [IMG]
I'm collecting "filler" Indian cents, too, as it happens. With a twist. ;)
The forum server is slow. If you click "post reply" while you're waiting for the first reply to post, you'll get a double. Best to just wait it...
Never mind. @Randy Abercrombie is hereby DISQUALIFIED from this contest. :wideyed: Why? Because he's an automatic winner. :) I'm sending him...
PCGS Photograde standards (scroll left for the lower grades) Value, per Numismedia
This one looks OK to me. Probably cleaned, but it's an old cleaning, and the coin has retoned. It might not straight-grade at a TPG, but I think...
+1 ditto. Even if it's real (about which I have serious doubts), it has that overscrubbed, harshly cleaned look. Real or fake, it's a hard...
I'd give it a gentle rub with Vaseline and a paper towel to remove some of the grime. Not a hard rub, obviously. You want to leave the color...
(I removed your duplicate thread.) That doesn't look too bad for a filler coin. I'd say it grades somewhere between Poor-01 and Fair-02, so it's...
Chris Scarre's Chronicle of the Roman Emperors was my go-to information source when I started collecting their coins. I really enjoyed that book...
Dunno ‘bout any pins, but my jaw certainly did!
Good for you; you did the right thing. (And that was clever how you “read” the bad picture.) I too would have thrown a crumb to the guy who sold...
If it's strictly for bullion purposes, I like so called "junk" silver (especially Merc dimes and silver Washingtons). And World stuff, though...
Yes. At least 66, if not 67.
https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n21a26.html
Yes, welcome to CT, @Victor123. I hope you didn't spend big money on that.
The "O" mintmark in this case probably means, "Oh, it's from Beijing."
Hey, I've seen the Chinese make a Silver Eagle with a 1901 date, so why not?
Love it! I'm crazy 'bout a Monitor (to heavily paraphrase Country singer Alan Jackson, who was crazy 'bout Mercuries).
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