Struck through PINE CONE?!!?
Those coins included some high-value items that are going to be really hard to move anonymously. Let's hope the thieves are just stupid enough to try.
Caught against the wheels in a counting machine, and rescued before it got quite hot enough to catch fire?
I'm not finding your posts the least bit boring or distracting. Please continue!
Absolutely nothing at Harris-Teeter today. Well, I did get a bat quarter out of the self-checkout, but it was just another P.
Edit: never mind, apparently missed the fact that I was on the first page of a multi-page thread. :oops:
Man, I've been carrying one around as a pocket piece for probably seven or eight years now, and it's going nowhere as far as wear goes. Still...
When all else fails, read the name that runs around the portrait. ;)
Yeah, I'd choose that coin any day over a straight G, even in a slab.
From what I've seen, a no-cents 1883 is likely to be in much better shape than later dates in the series, just because so many of them were set...
Meh, better than being tossed in the trash, which is the eventual fate of a lot of other "collectibles". But anybody buying from the Mint and...
Whoa! Is that just toning, or actual texture (raised or lowered areas)?
Geeze, what did that cent ever do to you to deserve such treatment? Oh, right, it was struck on a copper-coated zinc planchet. Carry on, then.
A nice pair! That half is better preserved than most from the teens. I think the rim ding by L on the obverse would keep it from grading cleanly,...
Worn and damaged, but still worth keeping, in my opinion!
Yep, if they look shiny and smooth, they're polished. It might still be able to restore the dates by letting them soak in vinegar for a few hours,...
They get inherited, or stolen, or lost and found. Someone takes them to the bank, or spends them, or takes them to a coin dealer who says "they're...
I understand all that. I just don't know exactly what makes a filled device get stuck and then fall off. Weakness in the planchet right where it...
I'm even trying to figure out if it might be a Photoshop healing-brush accident, but no, it really looks legit. Exact size and shape of an obverse...
I signed up in October 1998, I think. Yeah, things were different. I got 50 or 60 positive feedbacks, and my one and only neutral feedback, from...
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