Love to meet you......:)
Hope to see you there Larry......
You forgot the laser etching.......
What's with the 'Adam's Apple'? (He had one in High School'. So subconscious. Freudian slip)
Privy mark?
Tough apples......I do. And The Canadians and Aussies don't charge through the nose?
Which is closer in color in hand?........I assume yours........lovely indeed.....:)
I did some work, a few years ago on America's first medals. Pewter disks issued back during the Bicentennial. Just to add a view on these...
When you can pick them up in the 'Junk bin'........
Tough call, crap shoot, roll the dice...... Nice looking coin though, and while I'm ill equipped to advise you, you are the 'Captain'......
I turned 19 fifty years ago......:)
I like'em and I collect 'em. Kill me, call me stupid and a fool, but I like 'em.......
There is a monument at Saratoga.........It reads: Erected 1887 By JOHN WATTS de PEYSTER Brev: Maj: Gen: S.N.Y. 2nd V. Pres't Saratoga Mon't...
Try on a Sunday Bing.......You'll do better tomorrow. Don't forget CBS Sunday Morning.......and pancakes.......:)
I normally kick people like you in the burro for resurrecting such threads of the past, but in this case, I feel a 'bump' was well in order. Good...
In fact I want to change my assessment......XF.....
The bloody ribbing has been worn off the sails on the reverse of the coin. Die wear, poor strike, or circulation?
I'd assign it a high AU.......I detest '61, '62 grades. Most of those graded as such are really ugly coins. Give me a high 'AU' over a low grade...
It's bloody 'common'. I can't believe how many times people try to make rarities out of otherwise common coins......
As for OP.......it's truly wonderful when we can pick out a forty or fifty year old 'copper' with luster most apparent.....'blazing'. I marvel...
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