I love EVERYTHING from 1900-1949 that doesn't have dead person on it! St. Gaudens, Bela Lyon Pratt's Indian Head gold, buffaloes, walkers,...
As my interests in US coinage branch off in to some of the earlier stuff I started to wonder about the different eras of US coinage and where I...
Personally, I like the coin. I would grade it MS-64 if the dark spots in the pic are shadowes and not spots.
Oddly, pocket, the 1999 Silver Proof Set kind of proves out my point. The set was not made available in quantity in 1999 to anyone. The Mint...
how can we find out our number?
ruining collecting through the absence of value in the item collected. In order for an item to be traded, it has to have some value. This value in...
Richie, part of my point was that I believe that the hoarding has caused the demand by the Federal Reserve to go up, thereby increasing the...
well, if he's giving something away I wanna be in the running... LOL
If you'd grade it a PF 66, then I'd question what coin you are looking at. I only see Uncirculated coins in this thread to that point, no proofs. ;)
congrats, Spock! We have all benefitted from the vast array of information provided by you over your 8000 posts! Here's to 8000 more!!!...
Since the 1950s the supply of coins from the US Mint has been relatively steady, consistent, and plentiful. Only in the case of Half Dollars made...
I would be careful as to grading early coppers as some of the collectors of these coins are purists in their grading and evaluation. They are also...
I can be led to the slaughter!!! I know very little about ancient stuff of ANY kind, but who cares??? Someone will get an easy first round win! LOL :)
I dunno about Farouk, Ruben... he was known for polishing his coins to keep them "nice and shiny"
The coin you've owned the longest. I found this post on "The coin you've owned the longest." interesting and have nominated it accordingly for...
The coin I have had the longest is a 1914-D Lincoln that I bought in 1997 for $125. I sent it in to have it slabbed by NGC and it came back as...
congrats to the winners!!!! and an even BIGGER thank you to rzage for the contest and speedy for helping with the drawing!!!!!!!
isn't it ironic that the first spouse coins cost more than the coins whose designs they share? I think I might have been drawn in by the modern...
although I LOVE the subject, I think the choices are a bit slim. My personal favorite year is 1921. Almost every series has a key or semi-key date...
It was a VERY GOOD YEAR I found this post on "It was a VERY GOOD YEAR" interesting and have nominated it accordingly for "Coin Talk Thread of the...
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