I think the pickings have been pretty slim for quite a while.
Absolutely not. I have invested far too much time and effort in acquiring coins that please me. Is there some junk I've accumulated along the...
I've never collected ancients, and never met Bill, but am saddened that we've lost another in our community.
From an old post . . . I'm still waiting for a 1907 quarter eagle that was mailed to me from England sometime before 2010. It was tracked to US...
[IMG] CUTE CHICK!
Were it not for the coin being a 1921, I'd say no. You might get lucky, and $25 seems worth gambling to take a shot.
If you don't have calipers or a mic, you can crudely measure the diameter with a metric tape. Alternatively, you can pencil mark the edge some...
If it is the J-171, the composition is 60% copper & 40% nickel, and usually looks like steel rather than nickel.
Take your time to really examine it closely. You may have a real pattern . . . possibly J-171, if it's real.
Also, the clear effort to cram the entire message on a small scrap of paper, rather than starting again on another sheet of paper points to the...
Did you attribute it as counterfeit, or did others?
Very cool . . . nugget and note actually from the Gold Rush! "Gold given me by Mother's brother, Eben Owen sometime in the early fifties on his...
Double eagle . . . can't recall, but don't want to not play
Magically Delicious! . . . sort of.
Liberty nickel
AU58
Can't say I have any generational coins, although my paternal grandmother did some collecting. I don't believe I saved any of those coins. I...
Participation trophy for a non-starter . . .
Neat!
What was it that Daffy Duck used to say? . . . "Mine, mine, mine . . . all mine." Tell'em to bury it deep in their mine shafts.
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