I agree it's neat but not quite worth a premium. My experience says it might be worth a premium if it were a palindrome or consecutive numbers or...
I have not seen any in the last year or so here in Sunnyvale CA. I'm guessing either they are slowly being pulled by the banks or there are more...
When did the Chicago presses shut down? Very nice additions.
I spent all of mine. I could not see them gaining in value short or long term. Although if you have a palindrome or some other fancy serial...
I'm with the jealous crowed. That aside I'd say VF35-XF40. A very nice original example.
The CAC website has a pretty good article on what they think FBL should be. http://www.caccoin.com/category/reference-sets/ It's probably not...
1. Flowing hair Large Cent / Half Dime / Half Dollar / Dollar 2. Draped Bust $2.5 / $5 / $10 3. Capped Bust $2.5 / $5 / $10 4. $4 Stella 5....
That is a fantastic coin, maybe one of the few I would think a few times about mortgaging my house for. I'd never do it but I should would think...
Does not bother me so much, I pretty much only buy gold from them and not counting numismatic values that starts around $250-300 for half eagles.
For the folks that need glasses can you point out where the putty is in the photo? Is it the dots around the date? BTW my experience is when a...
Definitely a coin that even a lottery win might not cover. I'll stick to collecting my low grade common coins.
True but there have been cases where puttied coins have slipped into slabs and caught later. This is a case where CAC would not sticker a slabbed...
Eye-dentify these US coins I found this post on "Eye-dentify these US coins" interesting and have nominated it accordingly for "CoinTalk Thread...
Very cool, I got about 3/4 of them and then kicked myself when others posted the answers.
I know nothing about varieties on this series but as far as grade I like it in the vg range and it has serious eye appeal for the grade.
Eagle Eye Rare Coins would be a good start http://www.indiancent.com/
Everyone has a different idea of what is beautiful. The bidders probably are not coin collectors and could care less what original means.
Todd does great work. Let us know how things turn out with the grading.
They are fun to collect and should not be considered an investment. If you are not interested in collecting them I would suggest selling the rolls...
How about a link so we can track the progress? The presentation of the 1798 Cent looks great.
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