What is a long tail penny?
I consider the Half Disme a part of the Half Dime set. Just an olde time spelling on the denomination.
I think it looks like a freshly polished coin... or possibly a counterfeit... either way it's not a nice coin that you want. My guess is freshly...
Job well done. ;)
VF... that sucker has some heavy wear for a $2.5
I picked this up at a local show this past weekend. Not much reference I can find on them but supposedly this is from the Eden mine in Zacatecas...
Yep, don't have to worry about that one.
That is a very good point... and a good tip to anyone sending anything in for attribution. Try to make it easier on the one doing the attribution.
Really??? That's a strange way of attributing...
Those dark spots are that pretty gunmetal blue toning... very hard to get in a pic.
I might have to do that. This coin is strange. I'm trying to figure out how those marks on the 1 could be PMD and rule this out as being something...
Ok guys. These pictures are the raw pics from my camera. I have not edited them in the least. This is how the coin looks in hand. What do you...
These coins are known to come in PL as well as being relatively well struck. This one looks like a circulated regular strike.
Any advanced VAM collectors frequent these boards? This is a VAM 1A Donkey tail reverse... Which is listed as a high R6 low R7 VAM. The reverse...
This place is great... NOT! They get you to buy thousands of dollars worth of worthless coins and then once they get you for several thousand...
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The problem with that is that is by far a much less simple explanation. For years many private companies have been contracted to make things other...
HAHA!! That's the Crazy Dutchman.... I'm just lost. Glad to help further your collecting goals!
Also if you read the Wikipedia article it appears that the ship stayed there for some time. It looks like it was surveyed by the Americans after...
Just for the heck of it I have EMailed the Barcelona Maritime Museum in the hopes of speaking with someone about this piece.
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