The small planchet Pint Tree Shillings marked the end of the series. These pieces were generally well made, and are the easiest pieces of...
No, it's corroded than therefore has environmental damage. Nickel collectors need to get this "black beauty" phrase out of their brains. When...
That's not bad for $20. I hate to tell you, but I paid $3 for my first one. That was in the early 1960s. Today that $3 is more like $30 in today's...
King “what’s his name” was Charles II. His father had been executed by people who were sympathetic to the Massachusetts colonists. Charles was...
If it’s genuine, there is no such thing as a “poor Willow Tree coin.” The coin was struck with dies that moved during the process. All of them,...
All of the dated Massachusetts silver pieces are dated 1652, except for the Oak Tree two pence which is dated 1662. I believe that was the year...
Yea, now and then.
I am confused by the next to last sentence. Coins are made by a government and have a stated value. Tokens are usually made by private concerns,...
The Oak Tree Shilling is rarer, but it all depends upon the grade. I paid about this same for this Oak Tree piece as I did for the Pine Tree...
I don't collect these bills, but I do have the reference book by Whitman, which was published in 2007. According that reference, it has a low...
It's nice, but the color has been "helped." The Noe-1 large planchet Pine Tree shilling is the poster child for the series. It was well struck and...
If you have been working at the profession for very long, you are probably missing the ends of a few fingers. Ouch!
Here are pictures of a rocker press and a set of dies which I found on the Internet. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have been hunting for raw Walking Liberty Half Dollars to make a short set (1941 to 1947). The retail prices range from about $35 to $150 for...
These coins were not struck in a collar. They had an irregular shape and were struck on a rocker press. That’s why they are bent. The rocker press...
[ATTACH] I would say that this piece is replica. It has casing bubbles and some of the features are indistinct in places where they should be...
To expand on this, the United States coins that we collect prior to the Civil War were, for a long time, only a small part of the money that...
It is total waste of money to send coins to these "fourth world" grading services. They don't even qualify is "third world" grading services.
There were many of them. The Hard Times and Civil War tokens are best known, but there were many others throughout the 19th century. Russell Rulau...
The why the Fulds, who wrote the classic CWT books began with 1861 for the tokens. They were outlawed for circulation in 1864. I suppose the...
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