I have owned this one for many years. The purists don't like it because it has been dipped. It works for me. I've never tried to replace it. [ATTACH]
Political pieces during this period were often watch fobs. Here's one for William Jennings Bryan's 1908 campaign. [ATTACH] Here is watch fob...
@Randy Abercrombie, I would wait for a "no problem" example. This commemorative coin comes nice. This is an MS-64. [ATTACH]
The mint produced far fewer quarters than it did half dollars during this period. Quarters from the 1790s to the 1840s are seldom cheap if they...
[ATTACH] The lowest mintage collectable 20 cent piece, the 1877 with 510 Proofs.
You can see a lot of my U.S. coin collection, at least the certified part of it, on the NGC registry. I have a collections of British kings and...
I am sorry I upset you, but when it comes to the 1881-S dollar, there are so many nice ones that the market does not give them a great deal of...
Let's go back to the beginning. I bought this piece from a bidwall auction in Boston many years ago. The owner told me he put it up with a...
The brother of an old girl friend bought Lincolns in the 1970s. Those cars were HUGE. I remember driving his Mark something or other in the...
The 1881-S Morgan Dollars were well made, and high grade examples were available by the roll years ago. I'd say this one is maxed out at MS-64. If...
Every once and a while, I find some the packaging for the "old commemoratives." Here's the folder for the York Half Dollar. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Here are two piece for my "one cent per date set." The 1804 is a classic rarity. It's more common than the 1799, but as a date it's the second...
The first one I owned was in the early 1960s. It was a 1794. It had a fairly nice obverse, which graded VG or so, but the reverse was virtually...
[ATTACH] This 1797 half cent is the "1 over 1" blundered die variety. It's the most common of the three varieties known for that year, but they...
If you could get a 1959 cent in a PCGS MS-68 Red holder, a registry collector would probably pay you at least several thousand dollars. The best...
To be worth the grading fees, a 1959 cent, has to be “beyond perfect.” It not only has to be mark free. It has to be perfectly made on the day it...
It might stimulate collector demand as it did in 1857 when the large cent when by the board. The trouble is the mintages are so huge for the...
“Key dates” can be found anywhere in a series of coins. For Liberty Nickels the key dates are 1885, 1886 and 1912-S. Frequently they fall in the...
When I lived in New Jersey, back in the 1970s, a friend of a friend had a 1796 Cap cent which was part of a family hoard. It was really quiet. The...
That's a pretty decent large cent for "budget friendly."
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