Here is an example of a piece that was issued in 1807 when the Bust design was introduced. [ATTACH] These coins tend to come in higher grades,...
The sharpness grade is VF-25, but the coin has two marks in the field, and it's hard to tell from that photograph if it has been cleaned beyond...
I am working on a set of Indian Cents. I collected a set when I was in high school, so you might say that I am having a "second childhood" in my...
It looks like it is a Good-4. Great find!
The 1873 and 1874 gold dollars were carelessly made in my opinion. The pieces from the 1880s are much nicer, partly because the mintages were much...
Like many Civil War tokens, it may have been. The piece is cent sized. It also may have been carried as a picket piece.
This piece is listed as a Civil War Token and as a political token. There are two minor varieites of it. Both varieties are somewhat scarce, and...
The U.S. Mint System struck millions of these coins. They existed only because of the politics. They were the product of a political compromise....
I don't have any "WAMs". I'll have to find out what those are.
Lincoln Cents 1909 to 1950. Someone else did 1950 to date some years ago, so they wanted cover the start of the series.
Yes, and I am scheduled to speak.
It's been squished.
Here is a work on progress. The red World War II OPA tokens are placeholders for pieces that I have in slabs. I need four coins to finish....
Yes, gold dollars have been plagued by counterfeits from the time I started collecting in the 1960s and well before then. The counterfeiter can...
According to Doug Winter, there is only one die variety for the 1852-D gold dollar. This one does not match it. The date and mint make are wrong....
I’ve read the price was something like 65 cents per hundred. Most, but not all CWTs were lighter than the U.S. Government cents.
There is a story, now debunked, about a New York City merchant who issued tens of thousands of tokens. A street car company took large numbers of...
The merchants who issued them paid for most of the patriotic pieces. Some were issued for political purposes, but if they mention a specific...
Thanks. It is graded MS-63. It was the “No L” variety which was among the first 10,000 pieces issued for circulation.
Carelessly made, probably as quick as possible.
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