MS-63, Brown
When I was in high school, I dreamed of completing a set of Indian Cents. One of the key coins in that collection was the 1864-L bronze Indian...
This a tough one. If you remove the crust, there might not be much left. Sometimes things are so far gone that authentication is not possible.
That 1872-S Half Dollar looks too nice to be only graded AU-53. I wonder what was going on the grading room when that happened? And yes, that is...
I would go with the best coins you can afford. You need to go more slowly, buying the pieces you like, rather pushing things and filling holes all...
The ones that are made for circulation are. In 2009, the Lincoln 200 birthday cents that went into Proof sets were solid bronze. I think that the...
"Red" means that it looks like a brand new cent in Uncirculated condition. Once the coin starts to to turn brown, it is almost impossible to make...
Sets like this are sold as fund raisers, perhaps for a worthy cause. There is more charity here than numismatic value. For the most part sets like...
Unusual red color which you will not find on a coin you pluck from circulation, but beyond that there is nothing remarkable. The coin has spots...
Here are some answers to these questions of comments. The Proof coins were almost all sold as sets. The cent and nickel were one set; the silver...
The 1863 is one of the "thick, white cents" from the Civil War era. This one graded MS-64, shows the color of the coin when it was new. I looked a...
Coin investment types have been touting the 1954-P cent at least since I was young collector in the 1960s. I pulled a roll of them out of...
When comes to forming type sets, I rarely got hung up on dates. To me acquiring the most attractive coin was the objective. I'd open up the set to...
I have a fairly large collection of 1860 and 1864 Lincoln campaign tokens. My favorite pieces for all the candidates are those tokens that have...
John D. Lovett, who worked out of New York City, cut the dies for the obverse of this piece. He most likely had never seen Lincoln and was working...
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I attended the Lakeland Collectorama show yesterday. In addition to the Lincoln piece I posted previously, I also found some interesting...
I disagree with pulling it completely from the market. There are no more than four or five Proof 1818 half dollars known, and any Proof coin from...
From what I have read, the misspelling was taken from an early Lincoln biography that had his name spelled that way in the title. I have looked...
It probably looks something like this. These are called ferrotypes because the photos are printed on a thin piece of iron. They were the first...
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