For those who are not familar with the $20 gold coins from this era, here is an example [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I know of drawings that were the early proposals for the Roosevelt Dime designs, but there are no pattern coins known, at least none that got out...
if you are a type collector, you might want to avoid going there. It's easy enough to get those minor types for the common modern material, but...
The holder ads interest, but it's not worth anything as a collectable today. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, played on the martyred...
They lower the grades for stuff like that because the slab companies want to make the grades more "generic." They can even put a "details" grade...
Look at the area in front of Ms. Liberty's face. It is a different color from the rest of the coin. The cheek has marks on it, but they seem lack...
There are really only two Roosevelt Dime type coins, the 90% silver (1946 to 1964) and the clad coins which run from 1965 to date. You can add...
It looks like an MS-65 unless they docked it a point because of the alloy issue on the reverse.
Yes, it's always fun to complete a segment of a type set like this. That is what I did at times when I was working on my set.
It may have been the angle of the photo, but the first coin looked fake from four pages of posts before. I don't have a 1795 off-center Bust...
The 1908 No Motto St. Gaudens $20 gold tends to come with indifferent luster. This piece has something wrong with it beyond that. The fields...
I refuse to get involved with Chinese coins because their government has yet to crack down on the conterfeiters who are still sending their junk...
I collect 19th century presidential campaign tokens. The candidates and their supporters issued these pieces before the Celluoid button was...
I have long opposed many of the Dan Carr fantasy date products because somewhere down the line, they will be used to cheat ignorant people. I am...
I remember that you could order 100 or 200 sets, I forget which. The limit came in 1968 when the limit was at 5 or 10, I forget which. Back in...
I included a 50 piece type set of the “old commemoratives” in my type set. I used to keep up with the modern commemoratives, but there are just...
The original design had words to that affect on the reverse. The State Department asked the treasury to tone it down so as not to offend the...
The trouble is the issue prices are high. Sometimes you can wait and get them for less in the secondary market.
These sets can be an interesting display, the coins are often low value items and usually cleaned to boot. If you would like this sort of thing,...
Knock on wood, no. I have always been careful, realzing that it can be easy to screw it up.
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