Toning is such a personally subjective thing. I happen to be a person that doesn't care much for toning. The whiter, the better for my...
I often mention the old boy that had a tiny coin shack that happened to be conveniently placed along my walking path to and from school middle of...
ROFL!! If you can’t eat it or play with it then whiz on it and walk away! However, I did have a gold dollar that my pup thought made quite a...
@Lon Chaney is on the mark... It is supply and demand. There is a lot of market uncertainty these days so precious metals are a hot commodity....
Very cool.... First time you walk in the doors, you will feel so overwhelmed. The perennial "kid in a candy store" feeling.... You will love it!!...
MS66+ FS
Cool... According to the NGC website they are JFK facsimile signature slabs... And they have graded 4948 of them at MS66
I don’t know if this helps or not. Back when I was doing a lot of woodworking, I would recess a cent somewhere hidden on the piece that I had...
I too would lean towards a jewelry bangle of some sort, though I would expect to see the telltale markings of a bezel somewhere. Looks as though...
I am so danged partial to the seated series and a seated dollar is a special coin. This is one of those coins that would have gotten me in...
I absolutely love your collection and would really like to see some close ups of some of these.
The mint struggled with the new nickels. The composition was much harder than they were used to. The US mint had hoped that eliminating the rays...
I never started collecting feeling drawn to shield nickels. But over the years I find that when I am at a show, I tend to be drawn to the dealers...
Someone told me as a kid that if I put a cent in my mouth and went to the nurse for a temperature check that I would show having a fever and be...
I think he had this one in a storage house with some childhood memory type stuff. I don't think he had the piece in a temperature controlled...
I was glad to see @Seattlite86 post. I hesitated to do so and I know if anyone has a sound method, it is the Major.... The OP's silver stash...
I suspect a very moist southern environment.... Not that our Lord intentionally left the piece in a damp place.... But come July and August down...
That book was probably opened and closed a thousand times.... The brown spots are the high spots, or the point where the old cent made contact...
It was glued or pasted into a book at some point during its long life. That is glue residue you see on the reverse.
I served in a little berg in Germany in the late 1970's and one Saturday afternoon I actually found a little German coin shop and purchased one...
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