Great coin, Lord M. Beautiful color
Really sweet bust half! Love the die cracks.
Beautiful coin, Larry! I have a VF30, but it's a bear to try to photo [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I think I'd drill a hole in the holder and pin the (w)hole thing to the board!
Lovely coin, JM, and a nice write up
Gorgeous group of halves, Larry!
Wish I could be there!
A tough coin to find in about any grade. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here are a few more: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
a few years back I was able to put together a set of them, here are a few: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
There is some interesting info in this thread on the CU forum (started in 2015 when gold was at $1160)...
The Higgins "primitives" are really interesting. I have a worn Monitor and a graded optician token.
Great token, John Milton, and I have seen pictures of some of the desktop salamander embossing tools too. I guess Good for a Scent is Merriams...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I also have a Hatter token, this one an NGC MS66, in some sort of white metal.
I have a few HTTs and CWTs in my collection. One of my favorites is this "Gold Beater" HTT that I photographed with axial light. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Verdi Care doesn't have a deductible!
The rounded areas on the rims were the tip off to me. I have Kevin Flynn's book on MPL's and the main takeaway is "only buy authenticated examples."
I'd say AU55 based on the rub in the fields, but on the upper rev it looks like some spots that have eaten into the surface; corrosion? Excellent...
I decided to upgrade my Mercury dime for type, got this one off a GC auction some months ago, but haven't posted here before. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
the marks on the rev look fairly coarse like adjustment marks, the ones on the obverse look finer and more like what we call roller marks, from...
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