Yes!!!
I don’t see how an 1893 Columbian half plays from an 1844 Seated half? Shouldn’t it have been 1844 or another Seated half? Here. I’ll play from...
True. I bought mine through a US auction house (Stacks-Bowers, as I recall).
My MS62 above cost me $480 USD, already slabbed. I guess I did OK on that one. I guess the extra grade point on yours moved the price upward...
True. But are they significantly less expensive? I guess being gold, they must be. For my Celtic coin, I went with a quarter-stater instead of...
Nice coin, but yowch, look at that price! Mine's one grade point higher and cost me less than a third of that amount!
Budget will be a barrier, of course.
As a former detectorist, I am quite familiar with that sort of patina on excavated tokens. I think most of the rarer local tokens around the...
I think I could even make a desk calendar with one-a-day coin photos, though 365 days might have me dipping into my cheapo extra stuff once I ran...
^ Nice one, @Croatian Coin Collector! Neat custom NGC label, too. I've never seen one of those.
Here's mine. They get a tad pricey in Mint State. Not absolutely unobtainable; just a little bit pricey, is all. [IMG]
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Yes of course- that's true. @SensibleSal66 - there was the lettered edge, just like on the Capped Bust halves. It says: FIFTY CENTS OR HALF A...
Yeah, but the problem there is that if the Caesars are put in chronological order, ol' Julius comes in January, not March.
I wouldn't let you buy one. I hereby promise to give you one... if they ever get made.
The date appears to be 1791, though at first glance it looks like 1797. There's something going on in that area, too, under the last two digits....
@Abramthegreat beat me to it.
Very nice, to the coin in the OP. And as to the detecting find, double wow! I'll bet your friend got an adrenaline rush when that puppy popped...
EF-AU sharpness, as mentioned, but with some discoloration. Possibly (but hopefully not) from environmental damage.
You were supposed to know from the size of it, I guess.
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