I think I will elect to not “Make it Mac Tonight” and just watch from the sidelines.
1820 B-4 (small 0). The easiest way to differentiate B-4 and B-5 is by looking at the 5 in “25 C.” The 5 appears larger on the B-4 than it does on...
[ATTACH] Whenever you read recommendations for early quarter dollar reference books, you usually see recommendations for Early United States...
It is the large date variety, so that weeds out JR-1. The spacing of the characters in "10 C." weeds out JR-3 and JR-4. The "10 C." is positioned...
Man, why did it have to be a B-9 (with the desirable arrowhead clashes to boot) that they decided to scratch and tool? Why couldn’t this have...
What’s nice about copper and silver is that when they corrode, they form a passive film and further corrosion is significantly reduced. Iron...
My most difficult set would be capped bust quarters. They are by far lass common than the half dimes, dimes, and half dollars of the era, and many...
Man, that stinks. But if the eye appeal of cleaned coins followed a normal distribution (bell curve), this 1838 half dollar would definitely be at...
I agree with LM-1. I love the crudeness of the 8 in the date. It reminds me of the second 8 on the 1808 half cent that was constructed with the 0...
I got mine! I’m excited to see how they look.
I completely agree... which is why I’m stuck down at the lower end of the grading scale. At least they’re not quite as bad as the quarters!
Two more bust dimes to add to the set... 1829 JR-1, R4 and 1835 JR-3, R2. The 1829 has the “extra large ‘10 C.’” reverse that would be used later...
I have Steve Tompkins’ Early United States Quarters book and I love it. Three years after it was published, Early Quarter Dollars of the United...
Nice, that weeds out the very common B-1, the O/F variety.
$80 for an 1834 quarter in VF is a steal indeed. Have you tried to attribute its die marriage? Maybe it’s a scarce one, though that’d really just...
I’m in the VF+ camp. And it is indeed the only small 4 die marriage for the year.
I'm using Early United States Dimes 1796-1837 for attributing and find it quite easy using this book. Some of the rarity ratings are a little...
Last year I posted about tentatively completing my 1815-1828 bust quarter set. While I doubt I'll ever be able to completely stop buying them, I...
I’m majoring in Corrosion Engineering, and when I started four years ago, I thought I’d be able to have a better understanding of toning on coins....
Check out this link and scroll down to the two 1823 varieties. On both of them, the position of the D in UNITED and the leaf beneath it are...
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