The mint struggled with the new nickels. The composition was much harder than they were used to. The US mint had hoped that eliminating the rays...
I never started collecting feeling drawn to shield nickels. But over the years I find that when I am at a show, I tend to be drawn to the dealers...
Someone told me as a kid that if I put a cent in my mouth and went to the nurse for a temperature check that I would show having a fever and be...
I think he had this one in a storage house with some childhood memory type stuff. I don't think he had the piece in a temperature controlled...
I was glad to see @Seattlite86 post. I hesitated to do so and I know if anyone has a sound method, it is the Major.... The OP's silver stash...
I suspect a very moist southern environment.... Not that our Lord intentionally left the piece in a damp place.... But come July and August down...
That book was probably opened and closed a thousand times.... The brown spots are the high spots, or the point where the old cent made contact...
It was glued or pasted into a book at some point during its long life. That is glue residue you see on the reverse.
I served in a little berg in Germany in the late 1970's and one Saturday afternoon I actually found a little German coin shop and purchased one...
Well… Fact is the world moves on and those of us with our old fashioned views on things go away soon enough…. Honestly, I haven’t studied up...
I am so old school that I still grade the way I was taught by the old coin shopkeeper that took this kid under his wing… G, VG, F, XF and BU….....
Failed to include your pedigree. And that was the reason you wanted the piece!
Feels good getting a catalog put together. The state quarter series is a fun and easy one to put together.... When I was doing mine years ago, I...
Morgans are not my strong suite... But I am in at AU58.
That’s amazing. And to think that Littleton caught the devil for sending our their “coins on approval” years ago….. I would rather gamble on a...
My hat is off to you Vietnam era vets. I was in that first wave of the new volunteer Army and it was you guys that turned me into the man that I...
Very, very cool.
Very cool! You found that in the wild?
I actually talked my dealer into selling me a counterfeit 16-D dime that he had in his safe for years for exactly the same reason. Holes bug me too.
The 27 is a good date, but the 28 is the cream of the Peace dollar series. Just taking a quick look at the PCGS price guide, there is an $800.00...
Separate names with a comma.
