Ditto. It especially looks like a scratch where it crosses the right bar of the V, lower down.
Yes, the host coins will be average circulated common-date pieces. I'll let you know how it goes. Send you free samples, if you remind me when...
I've sent out some email inquiries on this project. I will likely have 75-100 rolled out on Mercury dimes. Then another 200-500 on Wheat cents....
"Shiny", not "shinny". I think it might be shiny due to more than just improper lighting. There appears to have been improper cleaning as well....
Merged the two duplicate threads into one.
I totally agree. This kinda stuff is what it's all about, as far as I'm concerned. I wonder if ol' CB is looking down on all this, from The...
Great projectile points and pottery. I've found a bit myself, but not that many.
The 1927 quarter is not only cleaned, but abrasively so. (Rather harshly scrubbed.) The Barber quarter has a more natural and wholesome appearance.
Rick, my benefactor in this extremely lopsided deal, provided this in the way of backstory. I don't think he will mind my sharing it and the...
Posted that earlier in the thread. The obverse got made into a love token with "CB" script initials, sometime between 1798 and about 1860, based...
The 1797 Draped Bust dime with 16 stars had the stars on the obverse, and the Small Eagle reverse. The 1798/7 Draped Bust dime, on the other...
Yeah, I'd say G4 grade. Maybe G6. "Book" price (Numismedia, linked to earlier) is $36. But @Collecting Nut's assessment of $20-ish is not off...
Nope. Watch. @LakeEffect is about to nail it.
You're getting very warm. Not 13 or 14 stars. There are, in fact, sixteen stars on the reverse of this coin.
Yes, we're getting much warmer now, but what kind of Bust dime, and what's the (invisible) date? ;)
Or there is even a clue in @Kasia's new coin (or any other 3cS). All trimes share a design feature with the key to this mystery, though the...
The answer can be found in the... [ATTACH]
Half dimes (and indeed, even trimes, as shown) were not too small for engraving. True, not quite as many of them got made into love tokens,...
No, and no, on both denomination and type. Narrows it down somewhat.
Really? Wow!!! No mintmark, but quite the sweet little gem!
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