Thank you @johnmilton... I always appreciate your informative posts.... Since this is a thread about the steel cents, is it reasonable to assume...
Actually... I do and I am happy to see them getting some attention.... I was a rabid young coin junkie when the Ike's were released and I am sure...
Wholeheartedly agree with this. The statements being made with older US coinage were far different than the message today.... But even deeper than...
That MS64 1857 dollar is a stunner. Cool clash too.
Hey @buddy16cat ….. I am one of those guys that is totally useless with photographic equipment…. But I have learned how to take decent coin photos...
Silver will tone. No getting around that. How it tones is as individual as the coin itself…. I don’t think you have a depression there. Likely...
Spectacular gifts on their own but their connection to your family makes those some pretty special heirlooms. Very cool!
OldHoopster departed us not long ago and was one of those guys that really made CT a better place. I miss him. Not all that long ago there was a...
Time to get that boy a Whitman book and hook him for life!
Toning is such a personally subjective thing. I happen to be a person that doesn't care much for toning. The whiter, the better for my...
I often mention the old boy that had a tiny coin shack that happened to be conveniently placed along my walking path to and from school middle of...
ROFL!! If you can’t eat it or play with it then whiz on it and walk away! However, I did have a gold dollar that my pup thought made quite a...
@Lon Chaney is on the mark... It is supply and demand. There is a lot of market uncertainty these days so precious metals are a hot commodity....
Very cool.... First time you walk in the doors, you will feel so overwhelmed. The perennial "kid in a candy store" feeling.... You will love it!!...
MS66+ FS
Cool... According to the NGC website they are JFK facsimile signature slabs... And they have graded 4948 of them at MS66
I don’t know if this helps or not. Back when I was doing a lot of woodworking, I would recess a cent somewhere hidden on the piece that I had...
I too would lean towards a jewelry bangle of some sort, though I would expect to see the telltale markings of a bezel somewhere. Looks as though...
I am so danged partial to the seated series and a seated dollar is a special coin. This is one of those coins that would have gotten me in...
I absolutely love your collection and would really like to see some close ups of some of these.
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