I have known about the blue book and red book for over 30 years and yet I had to read this thread to just hear about black book. :)
Right as always. :bow: I started to add to the original thread how many hours of pain staking work it was to attribute the two coins, but then...
Very nice coin! Good pickup.
Both are very nice! Good additions.
Yes it is the 1811/0 overstrike or S-286. Still shows after all the wear on this puppy.
Makes me wish my dealer had junk bins, but they don't. Not sure where their junk goes to. I know they will buy bulk wheaties, but they don't...
Thanks all. And with the history of this country sometimes it makes me wonder how any of the older coins survived. And I would love to figure...
A couple of plain jane large cents for my plain jane collection. Nothing special the 1811 has a couple of little(my opinion) rim bumps, but still...
Sorry to hear that and I hope you get them back.
I think what they are saying is "you can price shop, but know what you are collecting". I mean everyone knows that not all coins slabbed with the...
It is a large cent - who couldn't like it!!! :) Nice double profile.
This is part of the fun on learning to grade from pictures. :) And besides Frankie's are hard to grade period.
Roll searching is perfectly good way to locate coins. I think on some of the sets finding some of the key dates might be tough, but you never...
1971 - D is for the denver mint and the 1971 is for the Philadelphia Mint. I believe in 1971 they were not yet putting the "P" on the coin. So...
Well - the only experience I have had with all of these buying coins are the "fly by night" concept. Yes - they say upto, but I think they expect...
Some coins depending on how common they are are not worth the grading fees. As someone already asked - What type coin are we talking about?...
Nice set of coppers.
I collect shield nickels and any busties there are. My shield nickels I am doing by date and I am looking for some DDO's - I have about 5 of...
Maybe....does the head spin around on the coin? A good dunking in distilled holy water should cure the problem. Actually take it to your...
Very nice indeed. Good pick up.
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