Very nice! I'm glad you got to go; my only time in Philly was in summer 2004 and I had the same revelation- saw a sign for the mint and got...
Do you have a scale where you could weigh it? It should weigh around 3.11 grams.
Just finished the nickels: two(!) buffalo nickels: 1920 and 1931-S, both VF quite a few early XF-AU Jeffersons: 2-1938 5-1939 1940 1943-P 1955...
Just got $200 in nickels and $250 in cents at the bank; guess I know what I'm doing this weekend!
I know what you mean... despite being enamoured with halves (especially from circulation!) for a while now I'm starting to appreciate the $5 gold...
Unless you have a low-overhead way of selling them, in my opinion it's not worth the effort. They probably won't go for more than $11 or $12 per...
I'm curious- where do you sell them?
Dot- In my experience there are two kinds of sources of halves: (1) banks where they collect over time, and (2) banks that will order boxes for...
Ah yes, "Mister James K. Polk, our eleventh president Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump"...
I haven't bought quite that much, but I _did_ find a 1934 DDO Washington Quarter once in a bunch of junk silver.
Nice finds! I hope the rest are as good!
Actually HCl won't react with copper, only zinc, so if there was a small nick in it it would produce a shell of copper.
Aluminum feels so light that I don't think it'll be used for coinage because it'll be such a change for people. But, as has been mentioned, nickel...
I think the argument is that the mintages are only around 10 million so compared to previous years or to 2000 or 2001 it's rather small....
I stopped by the bank today and the teller had two 2005-S proofs and two 2004-S proofs waiting for me... how nice!
That's definitely wrong- all 1981 and earlier Lincolns have a mass of 3.11 grams. Maybe a misprint?
Looks like either Austro-Hungarian or German empire to me, though without the 19th century Krause I can't say for sure.
I find the idea interesting and not a bad one but the problem with liberty dollars is the implementation- in essence they split the seignorage...
It depends on the year as to whether it's worth looking for. The 1999 seems to be the most rare followed by the 1998, whereas the 2000 wide AM is...
I would agree, I'd keep it all if you don't need the money right away. I have tried to make a few small sales just to see where I could get the...
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