Oh, I'll bet it's the 5-ounce gold pucks done for the 59th anniversary of Gilligan's Island... ;)
Maybe the Presidential Pets medalette series done on unplated Zincoln planchets...?
What are you getting?
Indeed.
I have used White's, Garrett, Bounty Hunter, Fisher, and Troy machines. I also have an old Minelab out in the shed but never really used it much...
I'm gonna predict UNC details/cleaned, though I guess there's a small chance it might get a pass. Hope so.
I see your buddy Joe is a member of the Garrett Mafia, like I was. I don't know what it was (a furniture escutcheon of some kind, maybe?), but I...
The lady on that 50-lirot note looks like my mother did in the early '60s. The nose is a bit off, but otherwise, yeah, that looks more than a...
The Maryland one is painfully obvious.
Technically, you won them in one of the Quarter Notes contests, for which I am merely the contest facilitator and distributor. Not the donor....
Oops. Correction: I got my Trade dollars mixed up, there. There were two I bought around the same time. One was the aforementioned ANACS VF20...
Here’s something else you can do, if you also keep paperwork with your coins.
*ding*ding*ding*
That’s a handsome looking setup. I use those albums and pages, too, when my coins aren’t in the safe deposit box.
Since I’m eclectic and all over the map and dabble in a little bit of everything, there’s probably not much I could post that would surprise you....
Button, is the first thought. Could have been a “whizzer” or whirligig toy, too, though.
Not fake. Nice “box dollar”, actually. Likely worth more with that alteration than a circulated, unaltered 1888-S dollar in that condition would...
One time I saw a Pilgrim half in an ACG holder described as a “1920-D”, as if the “D” designer’s initial on the coin (for Cyrus Dallin) was a...
Ahh, good ol’, bad ol’ “Accu”grade. We sure used to poke fun at them on the PCGS forums, back in the day. Funny, I look at these kind of...
How about some love tokens done on key date Seated dimes, from my old date set? 1879 Key date. Rare; exceedingly so as a love token. "A" and "J"...
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