Agreed.
I don’t say that at all. I might say that if the coin had been whizzed or polished or cut, knifed, etc. Mistreated in modern times, in other...
Looks good to me, and the counterstamps, while they reduce its value in the mainstream sense, are interesting and worthy of research. In the...
You are, of course, conservative. I’d go 45 on that. If not even AU. And, even given the passage of 25 years, I’d say your father made a very...
LOVE it! A man after my own holey coin heart. If you use those keys very often, though, that old cent is gonna lose some of its brown patina.
Can’t wait for the time machine to rematerialize, now. Is anybody here near Mt. Sterling, Illinois, to be there to greet it when it does?...
PS- that 1856 is amazing for the money! I’ve done well on some, but not that well!
I’m glad you posted that. I couldn’t remember who our resident “<$20 Large Cent Guy” was, off the top of my head*, so I laid out that sentence in...
Fantastic! Illinois, you say? I wouldn’t mind keeping one of those Gem BU Indians for myself, before I gave the rest away, per your instructions....
Yes, I often have to do a re-draw when my own number comes up, which it does fairly often, as you can imagine. Often more than once. I also...
I have always loved those, and love the color a circulated example of the type typically acquired over time. So much so that I too have been more...
I don’t know where most of the ones on the collector market came from, but Sergei of Metal Detecting World (one of the best- if not the best-...
“Found in circulation”. THAT set is gonna take some time to complete! (Like a few lifetimes.) But bravo! Epic quest! (If a rather Herculean...
I’d love to see it! Don’t remember it. (There are more and more of those “don’t remember” scenarios for me as time goes on. LOL)
I should add that when I completed the series, it was only in G-XF. My 1877 was VG-ish but had a little machine damage across the headband. But...
I’d say that’s avatar-worthy!
That’s another great CircCam. I daresay the contrast on yours is even a tad nicer.
Really. I mean, you’d have to resort to a sack or something, wouldn’t you? More than a couple of those things, and pockets would be out of the...
Wow! Below melt!
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