A brutalized Barber 1905-S half. Why did I bother to photograph this coin? Oh, It's because I bought it when I about 14 years old. [ATTACH]...
Pustules. Disgusting sounding but certainly plausible.
I forgot to mention that the coin is standard "coin turn" with the reverse off about 15 degrees from 180 degrees. That puts the reverse "blob"...
So I was sitting at the diner this morning with some of my buds when up walks our local collector of all things nostalgic and the purveyor of...
While I enjoy the hunt for "just the right example" as much as anyone, I have to say that there's an elephant in the room. If you are in your 20s...
While I absolutely agree with @physics-fan3.14 about avoiding cleaned coins as a general rule, I have on rare occasions deliberately purchased a...
The 1804 looks like a C-10 to me. "Crosslet 4 with Stems" Obverse 4: Closely spaced date with the 4 vertical, slightly high and close to the 0....
I use: The Half Cent, 1793-1857, The Story of America's Greatest Little Coin c. 2019 by William R. Eckberg Easy to use and with quite good...
If you will start a new thread, I will walk you through how I attribute half dimes.
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Yes, I stand corrected. The 1795 is C-2a. I originally missed the "4 berries per stem".
I make them as: 1793: C-2 1795: C-3 1806: C-1
I care and would very much like to hear what the TPG has to say about it. Did Mr. August provide any details regarding his opinion?
Hah! The old saying went "Yesterday I couldn't even spell 'angeneer', today I are one"
FWIW, here are my criteria for storage of both slabbed and raw coins: 1) Paper labels and envelopes that are in CLOSE proximity to the coins are...
@Eduard and @kanga, those are both quite nice 1793's. I agree that it's somewhat difficult to photograph these coins adequately, whatever that...
The one I use is: The Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars, 1794-1804 by Q. David Bowers C2013 Published by Stack's Bowers Galleries I...
(Tongue firmly in cheek). The raw coin should be suspended within a vacuum bottle by an inductive/magnetic field that keeps it from contact with...
I forgot to include the link to the Osburn/Cushing book so you can read a bit more of what they have to say on the 1873-S....
I think your 1873-S is almost certainly a counterfeit. Osburne and Cushing cannot be certain that none exist but the reports that the mint struck...
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