Wow that is a huge low serial. VN.
Short hunt made more than my gas. I didn't realize till I got home that I bagged a silver dime. Melt value $5. As Lefty said in Donnie Brasco: A...
I've got nothing going on so I photographed my rings. I will try to describe most of them. The 1st photo are some really nice homemade...
The prob is that copper reacts and when it is in the ground a long time it is always going to have ED. The top coin while a great find has ED and...
Yes that's true. But it appears to be verdigris and evidence of cleaning none the less.
The orange areas seems to me that it has been cleaned. And there is verdigris. Copper is not orange but it will look like that when it has been...
It is a bookend serial number. A bookend serial number is a "fancy" currency or collectible number where the same digits appear at both the...
If it was determined that the wear was natural it would straight grade a P-01. I don't think the little notch on the reverse right of 9 o'clock...
Nice serial #. I agree it looks better than a 40 grade however, I see that there was a crease down the center through the portrait. That prob took...
Going back to the bank vault toning. It would depend on the "canisters" or other methods of containing coins, which are usually burlap bags, and...
Even sitting in a bank vault for many decades would cause a darker toning than blast white. The dipping strips off this outer layer. It's not natural.
Something about the blast white coins (especially Morgans) makes me think they are dipped. Since coins were not put in slabs 100 years ago, (or...
I thought in this triptych might be able to see the coins a little better up close. 1st one is a little blurry at the top but it gets better....
A decent number from parks (playgrounds) I don't dig up the ground because it is like cement here, and then you have to replace it, and all of the...
Fun updates for me. Gold. Misc silver not rings or chains. Dol coins. And then NIFCs 2003-P, Sequoyah, Native Hospitality and American Innovators....
Whoops. 3rd surface gold. I have 13 this is year 11. (Of course I never even expected to get 1.)
I hit one spot Saturday and the last target was a dollar coin. I head out Sun AM and I was planning on skipping some spots but when the first few...
Vess is correct there absolutely is a dilution of collectors. The last few coin shows I went to 95% of the people were dinosaurs like myself....
Besides the spike in silver and silver coin prices, other coin prices which were dormant for many years have increased over the last few years...
1968 cinco centavos on the shelf with a few brownies, one I tossed and the other 2 cleaned up. NGC claims this is worth .20 cents in VF and .50 in...
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