This date was the last of the Draped Bust large cents. It is marked by some rather famous varieties including two types of overdates, small...
While I was walking around the 2024 FUN bourse, a fellow buttonholed me and asked if I would be interested in a 1945 Franklin Roosevelt inaugural...
It looks like a significant die break which is probably a diagnostic for a specific die variety. The coin is a bust dollar, and I remember seeing...
I think it took me three months to get a couple of notes back from grading. Of course it was shorter when I paid more, those notes that took...
Here's a short history of Claudius from my notebook. [ATTACH] Antoninianus of Claudius II, Obverse: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG “Emperor caesar...
The PCGS Banknote Company when belly up. All of their certified notes are like raw notes now. That is not a big problem for the less expensive...
With mintage of 348,000, the 1806 cent has a reputation as a better date coin. In reality it is fairly common in the lower grades, although higher...
Yes, when I bought that coin I hoped that I would be able to find the other dates in Choice VF, but it didn’t work out that way. Most of these...
Yes, it's nice for what it is, but did you see the 1802 I posted in MS-63, Brown? That one is "exquisite."
The 1805 cent is fairly common with a reported mintage of 941,116. There are three known die varieties with two known obverse dies. Given the...
There are some dates of large cents that were struck in convex / concave planchet, but that was in 1796. The mint had started to buy copper...
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It's good that you got an answer, but it's much better if you show the whole coin, not just pieces of it. Pieces are great if they are included...
You will probably get more jealous, but in the early 1960s, I could go into my local bank and trade a paper dollar for a silver dollar. Those...
If you did now, if they were original Mint State bags, the price would fall like they did for the formerly rare New Orleans dates in the early...
I was a kid going through my parents’s change purses and bank rolls when I could get them. I had a very narrow interest. I bought coins for the...
Stories? In the early 1960s I saw news reports about how people were lined up outside the Treasury in Washington to get silver dollars. The...
It is very close to a Good-4. The reverse is mostly all readable and the stars can be seen on the obverse. The color and surfaces are a big plus....
The big cuds seem to be pretty common on this date. Many of the survivors seem to be the late die state. The coin is PCGS graded EF-40. It's one...
In contrast to the previous two years, the 1804 cent is the second classic rarity in the large cent series. The coin is not as rare as the 1799,...
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