The ones that are made for circulation are. In 2009, the Lincoln 200 birthday cents that went into Proof sets were solid bronze. I think that the...
"Red" means that it looks like a brand new cent in Uncirculated condition. Once the coin starts to to turn brown, it is almost impossible to make...
Sets like this are sold as fund raisers, perhaps for a worthy cause. There is more charity here than numismatic value. For the most part sets like...
Unusual red color which you will not find on a coin you pluck from circulation, but beyond that there is nothing remarkable. The coin has spots...
Here are some answers to these questions of comments. The Proof coins were almost all sold as sets. The cent and nickel were one set; the silver...
The 1863 is one of the "thick, white cents" from the Civil War era. This one graded MS-64, shows the color of the coin when it was new. I looked a...
Coin investment types have been touting the 1954-P cent at least since I was young collector in the 1960s. I pulled a roll of them out of...
When comes to forming type sets, I rarely got hung up on dates. To me acquiring the most attractive coin was the objective. I'd open up the set to...
I have a fairly large collection of 1860 and 1864 Lincoln campaign tokens. My favorite pieces for all the candidates are those tokens that have...
John D. Lovett, who worked out of New York City, cut the dies for the obverse of this piece. He most likely had never seen Lincoln and was working...
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I attended the Lakeland Collectorama show yesterday. In addition to the Lincoln piece I posted previously, I also found some interesting...
I disagree with pulling it completely from the market. There are no more than four or five Proof 1818 half dollars known, and any Proof coin from...
From what I have read, the misspelling was taken from an early Lincoln biography that had his name spelled that way in the title. I have looked...
It probably looks something like this. These are called ferrotypes because the photos are printed on a thin piece of iron. They were the first...
The Lakeland, Florida Collectorama show is being held this weekend, which is unusual. Usually it is in the fall, but it was pushed up this time...
I don’t even consider buying a coin when the photos are shot at an angle like this.
@Shrews1994, the piece you have is patriotic Civil War token 36/340a. That obverse, number 36, was paired with three reverses, and the one you...
Could this be due to time travel? Oops ... the eagle is showing some brass ... in more ways than one.
Those bidders are so dumb, gullible and uninformed that you almost can’t feel sorry for them. “Stupid is as stupid does.” Forest Gump When you...
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