Agree folly with @NOS. The rays and arrows design is among my favorites. Lovely coins. Enjoy.
Way cool, Joy!
Welcome to the forum. I am not a Morgan specialist. There are some here and I’m sure they will show up soon. A complete set of Morgan’s is an...
I don’t blame you one bit. You sound like me. In my half century of collecting I could count on one hand the pieces I have sold. It was never done...
Ooohhh.... The karma will come get ya! And a blessed holiday to you and yours too.
The imprints that you see on his head is glue residue. The nickel has been glued to something over the course of its life.
It was slabbed in the 1980's and standards were a bit stricter. If I sent it in today, I am sure it would come back 65. That's really rather...
Don't turn a blind eye to the Saints slabbed less than 64. There are some very eye catching 63's out there too. This happens to be one of my more...
You shouldn't tease us so! Can we not see this coin?
Myself, I wouldn’t pay $1300.00 for any ASE unless it cleaned my house and did my taxes....... However, I do think these price points seem to...
Chris.... Jeez man. It wasn’t a statement of fact, man. I don’t have the dollar in hand. I’m not trying to prove anything. That ain’t my thing....
Texas cent. Laid between some leather and hit with a hammer.
Even if I had all of @Collecting Nut money, I wouldn’t pay that for two ounces of gold! Wowza!!
You can polish the scratch out of the lens with headlight polish.
Also have a maple guitar I played in smoke filled nightclubs through the 70’s and 80’s that is now permanently yellow from nicotine.
I have a batch of old Merc's like that. They are almost sticky from the nicotine residue.
Being in a tobacco smoke filled room as most coins from early last century were for most of their existence. The yellow is nicotine residue.
I generally spend $16.00 when I buy slick cull dollars and yours is not a cull dollar. I believe you did extremely well.
I love it when that happens. I get just as excited as I do when I receive an expensive coin that I purchased.
Being that we are all coin junkies here. Whatever you have to share.
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