High prices did a lot to kill the First Spouse series. The series started off at almost $500 and kept going from there. The bronze medalets at...
Both William the Conqueror and Rufus issued “stars” pennies, S-1254 for William and S-1260 for Rufus. Halley’s Comet visited before the Battle of...
Thank you for the great opening post. I knew that the Normans claimed some lands in the holy lands from the First Crusade, but did not realize...
Coins in the flat packs that you have are Mint Set coins. The Proof sets came in government holders that looked like this. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Here is the Pilgrim half dollar that is in my type set. I can't believe how low the prices are for many of the early commemorative coins. This is...
I agree with you about the Proof coins. The fact that the Proof Coin mintage exceeds the Uncirculated mintage repeatedly, issue after issue, shows...
I have all of the wooden box sets except for the 32 piece Atlanta Olympics set. I bought a 16 piece set at small show many years ago for half the...
Especially the 1996 Atlanta set, which had 16 different coins in it. That was overkill in the extreme.
Morgan Dollars need to be better dates and in the higher grades to be worth the grading fees. This is an 1885-CC dollar. It grades MS-63 and would...
The editors of the Red Book made some odd choices when they picked out merchant Civil War tokens. This one for the Drovers' Hotel in St. Louis,...
Here is a Wealth of the South token which is pictured in a generic way in the Red Book. You might not like this one because it is holed, but that...
It might be worth it if it had a CAC sticker. The Greysheet says those are worth $320. It should not be getting one of those any time soon.
[ATTACH] Yes, remember "Dick and Jane?" Collectors made a big deal out these coins because they were the first U.S. gold coins since 1933. The...
Jackson in a toga. Dressing political leaders in toga was a big thing in the 19th century. You might this one more realistic. This Low #3....
Were you buying all of the wooden box sets from the mint, @fullhart? That was quit an investment. I bought them in the secondary market years...
Here are three more from the same page. Low #4 [ATTACH] Low #56 I think that all of these pieces are holed. [ATTACH] Low #55 [ATTACH]
Here are a few from the Hard Times Token chapter on page 417 of 75th Edition. Low #1, there are three sub-varieties of this piece [ATTACH] Low...
By the early 1980s, the Statue of Liberty was in rough shape. As comedian, Bob Hope, joked, "I waved to the Lady of Liberty and she waved back."...
My main concern is that they are real. The Chinese will make anything these days, even made to order. A guy showed up at an Early American Copper...
Here is another satirical token concerning the 1876 presidential election. Charles Dana is best remembered as the newspaper editor, Edmund...
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