It is interesting to look at the buildings or structures that are depicted on some coins. Here is the church at Jamestown, Virginia which was the...
Here are a couple of photos my late father in law took of the carving in the early 1960s. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here's what it looks like today....
Actually it's a bit more complicated than that. Here's an article about that I wrote a few years ago. Every United States commemorative...
The British coins, prior to 1920, were 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper which is sterling silver.
Graffiti on a coin is much worse than a random scratch. It shows intent which collectors view in a much more unfavorable light. As for the first...
I like half cents too. I used to collect them but die variety and knew the late author, Roger Cohen, who wrote the two editions of the “Little...
I'm working on a date set of cents from 1793 to date. I've got quite a few of them, but the 1808 to 1813 coins are going to be the toughest group....
I may as well include a Bust Dollar in the mix. This 1798 Large Eagle is a better die variety. It was the plate coin in one of Dave Bowers books....
The sharpness grade is VF-20, but I'm concerned about the shiny spots in back of and above Ms. Liberty's cap and the areas around the eagle on the...
People have compared the design of the Shield Nickel with a "tombstone." It was very similar to the Two Cent Piece, but somehow, it didn't come...
For $40, that looks really nice. [ATTACH] When I retired, I had a few coins left in my inventory. This 1878, 7 over 8 tailfeather dollar was...
When I was a dealer a person consigned a Bust Dollar to me to sell. It was graded EF-45, with claims to the AU grade, but it had initials lightly...
The presence or absence of the “L” has nothing to do with this coin. It is made of the copper-nickel composition. All of those coins do not have...
All of the other modern presidential medals in silver are taken from the same series of presidential medals. These medals used to be fairly...
Here is a 19th century stike of the medal which inspired the modern silver mint medal. Julian, who wrote the book on 19th century U.S. mint...
I think that @calcol may have been pulling our collective legs, but I could be wrong.
I saw this one years ago. Note the "L" that has been scratched in above Ms. Liberyt's head. PCGS graded it MS-63, and CAC approved of it. If you...
Fillmore did run as the “Know Nothing” anti-immigrant party in 1856, but it is not known if he agreed with them or was looking for a way to go...
Here’s a little more history. Millard Fillmore was elected vice president under Zachary Taylor in 1848. He became president after Taylor died from...
Showing a photograph of a presidential candidate on a button is a very common practice today. The buttons that we regard as “modern” were patented...
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