Oh, wow, great to see you back! And happy to hear that you're feeling better!
Well, heck, who could blame us? Funny thing, it was my wife who corrected me -- and she's not exactly a Southerner by upbringing. Not sure where...
Bet you'd been rhyming it with "Talladega" like I was, right?
A quick search through eBay completed auction shows similar coins generally getting $40-60, with outliers as low as $30 or as high as $115. At...
Struck through a late stage die cap, maybe? I'm not a collector in this area, so let's wait for the error folks to weigh in with confirmation and...
Not trying to support or refute any sinister readings of "foreign IPs", but we have plenty of regular non-US members, right? People outside of a...
That die chip on the inside of the left wheat ear appears on tons of counterfeits. Maybe it was copied from some genuine coin with the same chip,...
What, did somebody pose with this coin (in its slab) in a Congresscritter's office? While wearing a silly hat?
That opens up a whole new class of doubling! "Left Ear Doubled/Tripled/Quadrupled..."
I'd say "then sell it to him right away", but I assume that (a) you have ethics and (b) you'd prefer to keep the coin shop guy as your friend....
Good on the seller, but the only conceivable reason for making and marketing a coin as ".24 gold" is to trick people into paying as though it were...
I'm not seeing that particular issue on this one. Just all the others indicating a from-the-ground-up fake.
Design sinking into the fields: check. Blobby letters (IN GOD WE): check. Old, familiar die chip on the inside of the left wheat ear: check....
And since I've strained my (freshly dilated) eyes reading the CFR section in question, I'll share it here. (This is dated 31 Dec 1974, so fresh on...
I've posted here before about finding a similar machine at the beach as a very young child. I still have the (worn, damaged) 1892-o dime I got...
Or looking for attention. I think there was a video a few years back about somebody trying to pay for his fast-food order with an AGE.
I had no idea! Thanks for posting this! (I don't expect it ever to be relevant for me, but very interesting all the same.)
This surprises me. I've spoke directly to tellers who took silver dollars at face value after trying to talk the owners into going to a coin...
As people are fond of saying in the "bars vs. coins" discussions, "the coins will always be worth at least face value". At banks, that's all...
I'm not sure I approve of dating outside one's own reality...
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