That might be just about the right timeline, actually. :rolleyes:
Yes, that was a rather sloppy job, though I find it more interesting because of that.
That's a great one.
Yes, that Sharpsburg is much better known. Sharpsburg, GA had a population of 341 as of the 2010 census. Our story takes place on Halloween of...
That's excellent. To me, that coin is as aesthetically pleasing as a Mint State example would be.
Once upon a time, in the tiny little hamlet of Sharpsburg, Georgia ...
This afternoon I noticed Peter had homepage-featured The Orangeburg Story, which I had begun last weekend and dragged out, shaggy-dog style,...
Googling the details fails me at the moment, but I vividly recall reading an article in the mid-1990s in Western & Eastern Treasures magazine...
I don't think a farmer having or burying all those coins is implausible, but him carrying them while plowing a field, and then randomly losing...
That's kind of out of focus. I like your little pointy-hand sticker, though. My phone camera doesn't have useful ones like that. Just really...
Looks About Uncirculated to me; perhaps AU50 to AU53. According to Numismedia, its value is thereby $0.02.
Nice calipers. That's an interesting one. I don't think it's a foreign planchet, but don't know. It will be interesting to find out what's...
Yep, a hit, but it is pretty neat how it resembles a "ghost 1"
These were sold in sets in all the coin magazines (and even in other non-numismatic periodicals) when I was a kid and novice collector in the late...
As @Michael K indicated, these are quite common coins. But they're fun. I doubt you'd get much money for them at auction. Keep 'em and enjoy...
.223 gold and .777 silver. And yes, it's an unusual alloy, but I like it too. I think it "works", aesthetically. I was unsure whether to call...
Hard to say from the pictures, but I think that could just be a streaky band of toning beginning to appear. It is possible that there were some...
Spectral hand petting a dog. It doesn't get much cooler than that, folks! :)
Sweet one, @coin_nut!
I also have one of the little silver rectangles in my swapstock box. I should take pictures of it.
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