Are there any other collar cud coins in your collections? Here are some cute & cuddly cuddy cents: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't know if it was my worst mistake but it is described here:...
Anyone have a collar cud? Sometimes (rarely) the collar die may break. I suspect that this type of die fatigue can cause the press machine to...
Each year in the fall, we take a midnight tour of Long Island Sound & hunt stripers. This one night we caught a couple record-fish. I'm one of...
Something attracts me to this RandyGeki coin: [ATTACH] I know it's pretty sad but something draws me to it. I collect coins from leprosy...
I suggest you go to www.vcoins.com & search for 1 B.C. & limit the search to whatever your max $ is. Then do the same search for 2 b.c., 3 b.c.,...
I posted a CAR coin as the one that got away 3-years ago at CT. It was a beautiful 2 R coin that was slated to be my Christmas present. Here is...
Thanks for the post. Someday perhaps Whitman will include a hole for a 1943 copper plated steel cent. :D
Thank you for the write-up. I really appreciate it when a map is included. (I recognize this particular Lysimachus territory but some of the...
If there was a button for "best question" I would have pushed it.:)
Thanks for the coin complement. I've only been collecting these really old coins since about the time you started this CT thread. :) I'm sort...
May I add these four to your thread?:) [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]
I just Googled popular hobbies & got this list. Coin collecting did not make the top 50 but somehow "dating online" is a hobby. o_O Reading was...
Perhaps someone was playing with their Nickel Sulfamate plating bath & made an electrotype (with gooey center that melted away). However it...
Fabulous pod of white whales. :) My white whale is a USA cent (1969-S Doubled Die Obverse).
I no longer have access to the ancient coin so pictures are not an option. The poor coin is in an unmarked grave outside my house. You can...
Yes, the 1971 was supposed to be made of 99.9% pure Nickel. Here is the breakdown by date: 2000–present 4.40 g, 94.0%steel (unspecified alloy),...
You must have an interesting browser history. :) I suspect that treashunt is correct that it has been corroded. BTW, most of the hollowed-out...
It is an old photo but I probably couldn't do any better today. [ATTACH] The reverse of this saddle strike is DSR and shows the reverse dies 180...
I couldn't think of a good answer for your good question. There are many facets that contribute to the grade of a coin. Strike is one of those...
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