What a great collection! I have been interested in the presidents since I was a kid, and learned them all in order, terms in office, birth and...
Nice! Most of my area had nothing but poor subsistence farmers, so not much in the way of coins. Severely corroded Indian cents occasionally....
Cleaned for sure, it is a common date and nice examples can be found at reasonable prices.
I've seen them sell for more, but how the coins hold up would be a concern to me.
Normal color normal weight, nothing out of the ordinary.
Yep, really no point in weighing halves, the upper and lower tolerances of the silver clad and copper nickel clad overlap so weight is pretty...
I'm currently using a Minelab Equinox 600, I keep looking at some of the new detectors, but I don't know if I want to go through the learning...
I buy most of my coins on ebay and have seldom had an issue, and have gotten some fantastic deals. Most of these are not high dollar items, and I...
Here is an article about magnetic attraction. Collectors’ Clearinghouse: Errors & Varieties: Weak attraction to magnet often spells trouble for...
A dime planchet is not copper colored or ferromagnetic.
Nice color and detail.
Small anomalies like that don't add to the value on early copper. There were a lot of planchet issues, so it is actually tougher to find coins...
This is the one I just bought, well worn but nice color and surfaces.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
There are a few ANS videos on the St. Patrick coinage on youtube. They are from the 2006 Coinage of the Americas conference so not exactly new...
@MIGuy you sir are a bad influence! I just went and bought one of the large size St. Pats that I had on my ebay watch list for some time!...
Yep, they were the only ones actually produced by the state, not on contract. The cost problem sounds like today!
I love the design on the Massachusetts half cents and cents. They were the first coins to actually have the cent designation.
Sorry, double post!
Posts on coins like this are too few, as opposed to the usual Morgan dollars or 1982 D small and large date cents, no offense to collectors of...
OK, I believe I have it, wow these are tough, there are a lot of different varieties of these! I come up with 1b.8 obverse [kneeling king side]...
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