It has been very heavily polished. The toning you see formed there after the polishing from its days in the frame. The best thing to do with...
The Cleveland commemorative half dollar was issued in connection with the Cleveland Centennial and Great Lakes Exposition which was held from June...
One of the reasons why I brought up the Missouri commemorative half dollar was because of the way some of them were sold. The coins were offered...
I have not looked at that one for a while. It's in the bank. It may have been dipped, but there is a reasonable chance that it has not been "given...
This Cleveland is graded MS-64. This picture is an accurate presentation of what the coin looks like when you see it in person. [ATTACH]
Most of the surviving 1811 half cents are in low grades with problems and generally unattractive. The rarity of the date favors sending them in...
Feuchwanger issued cents and three cent pieces. He issued the three cent pieces during the Hard Times period and the Civil War. I would like to...
President Franklin Piece (in office 1853 to 1857) had a sad personal life. His wife, Jane, was still angry at him after he accepted the 1852...
Collect imperial Roman coins. You go from the silver denarius to the Antonininius was heavily debased, to the almost nameless copper coins.
Better over the last 35 years with the advent of computers. Before then, my young brain allowed me to remember what I paid for everything. The...
Yep, history is a big deal for me. It often means more to me than rarity. Rarity can put something out of reach that you would like to have....
Yes, you have a point. To me, it's all about history and enjoyment. There are people who really get off on errors. I'm not one of them. A die cap...
I might break even on my collection if I sold it now, according to the Grey Sheet. I would have been way ahead if I had not bought anything in the...
I don't like Proof coins in Danco or any other album. All that offers is a good chance that they will be ruined. I bought an album for my great...
But Breen claimed that sometimes, the mint would "slip" a Mint State coin into a Proof set if they are run out of the coins. We know that Breen...
Here is group of five 1952 Proof sets with the original outside mailer. [ATTACH]
You can figure out the date if you can determine the Sheldon number. I did that with four cents a collector had many years ago. The trouble is, if...
My first gold coin was an 1854 Type II gold dollar. I bought it from my mother’s cleaning lady in the early 1960s. It graded VF, but it had a weak...
If it's listed in the HTT book, it does. It's been listed for many years. I collect mostly the political pieces. This is perhaps the most common...
The Early American Coppers (EAC) club picked up on that many years ago and added the Hard Times tokens to the pieces their members study and collect.
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