I'm all aboard with a Weird Al commem- if it had a suitably weird design. He's a national treasure. If I was the Prez he'd get the Presidential...
I'm fond of calling those "slick Vickies". The 1860-1967 British halfpennies and large pennies circulated for a very long time! (And not just in...
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Most recipients of the calendar would be non-numismatic civilians; many with only a slight grasp of the history. Don’t wanna confuse them or skew...
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I don’t see how an 1893 Columbian half plays from an 1844 Seated half? Shouldn’t it have been 1844 or another Seated half? Here. I’ll play from...
True. I bought mine through a US auction house (Stacks-Bowers, as I recall).
My MS62 above cost me $480 USD, already slabbed. I guess I did OK on that one. I guess the extra grade point on yours moved the price upward...
True. But are they significantly less expensive? I guess being gold, they must be. For my Celtic coin, I went with a quarter-stater instead of...
Nice coin, but yowch, look at that price! Mine's one grade point higher and cost me less than a third of that amount!
Budget will be a barrier, of course.
As a former detectorist, I am quite familiar with that sort of patina on excavated tokens. I think most of the rarer local tokens around the...
I think I could even make a desk calendar with one-a-day coin photos, though 365 days might have me dipping into my cheapo extra stuff once I ran...
^ Nice one, @Croatian Coin Collector! Neat custom NGC label, too. I've never seen one of those.
Here's mine. They get a tad pricey in Mint State. Not absolutely unobtainable; just a little bit pricey, is all. [IMG]
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Yes of course- that's true. @SensibleSal66 - there was the lettered edge, just like on the Capped Bust halves. It says: FIFTY CENTS OR HALF A...
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