Considering the originals were pattern coins never released for circulation, and thus never legal tender, and these modern fantasies (at least the...
Good recordkeeping is paramount. You will thank yourself for it later.
Metal detecting is a lot like fishing. Hours of semi-boredom in the Great Outdoors (usually pleasant semi-boredom, unless there's bad weather or...
The one working detector I still have out in the shed (or it did still work when put into mothballs, anyway), was an older Garrett GTA-350 of...
I have never met any of these CoinTalk folks in person. I used to go to the big FUN coin show in Florida some Januaries, more than a decade ago,...
The puffy-cheeked portraiture does seem a rather cartoonish caricature of the original Morgan design. But considering this real one sold for...
Here. Cropped screenshots from my small laptop. If anyone needs to see the full-sized images, just go to his PDF file. Nice coin. [ATTACH]...
You're not going to get many folks to download a PDF to look at your pictures, I'm afraid (though if anyone wants to look, the link is safe- I...
Of course now I'm just a washed-up, "has-been" detectorist. I still have a few old machines out in the shed but have not "put the coil to the...
I found a 1738 George II halfpenny down here (and a 1730 KG2 farthing in England). Those King George coppers are fun! Believe it or not, that...
Y'know, I've forgotten, and all the old albums are put away in storage. I need to dig them out. (Get it? Dig? LOL) If memory serves me...
Man, silver quarters were few and far between for me. Always fun to find. You're consistently raking in all that silver, and will before long...
One would have a bit more difficulty fitting a predecimal British halfpenny into a US cent roll! ;) Maybe in a quarter roll...
I am relieved for your sake. At those prices, I’d buy them myself, hypothetically speaking. IMHO, you did just fine.
Very sharp. Nice portrait, indeed.
No. Not silver. Even if you ignore the blatantly obvious fact that there is no mintmark over the dome, the color is totally different from the...
Nope.
To stray slightly off topic, I must say that Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid and Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride...
I can assure you I woke my sleeping wife up with my excited “whoah!!!” when I found that 1914-D I posted earlier! ;)
A jeweler’s cloth is a bit more dangerous because I think a lot of them (at least the ones for polishing silver) can have polishing compounds...
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