Even during the Revolution, I discovered recently! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 1793 - the year of the terror and his own execution!
I'll probably spend some of my partial-date Buffalo nickels, since I've learned that selling them on eBay won't earn you anything. ;) (I...
That's natural toning. That dollar tones that way (I have one and sold another). Actually, a lot of the silver Canadian dollars tone very nicely....
There are plenty of AU58's I'd pay more for than MS62's.
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I definitely think both the cent and the nickel are useless for commerce now. I've been in favor of abolishing dollar bills as well, although...
You're a toning master, @Skyman !
I think OP's premise was that an obsolete design would be brought back. Given that premise, which should it be?
What don't you like from that period?
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A buck or two below market price.
Everything from the 1922-1930 Golden Age, no?
Reading _Coins in History_
I like circulated coins with super-clean fields like that.
Ah, yes, of course - the right edge. I can just see the top of the anchor sticking out from behind Marianne a bit above.
As OP I say YES. :) I wonder what the intended meaning of that pointed "demon tail" on the obverse of that French Indo-China trade piastre is!
According to Josiah Ober, the early 3rd century was actually the peak of Athenian prosperity (though not its philosophy, to be sure). That could...
Oh, I'm sure. Not blaming GC. I'm gratified to see it hasn't gotten any bids.
Nice to have such a nice coin from the period of the Dutch Republic's global preeminence too. Great history behind it.
I suppose you could put the coins in Air-Tites and then mount those, no?
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