That is a very nice note. I have very little continential currency. I am generally not a paper money collector. Here are the two pieces that I...
Spending money on having that coin "conserved" is wasting money. If the TPG conservation service is ethical, they will send it back to you as is...
Well, if the U.S. Mint system is not going to get this coins into circulation for collectors, I guess the Chinese will do it instead. :shifty: I...
I would say you won't like the results. The surfaces are scratched and pitted. Removing the black corrosion will only emphasize the pits and...
At the bottom of the card which holds the token shown above, you will note "The Green Duck Company." The Green Duck company was started in Chicago...
In addition to coins, I also collect political items, mostly presidential campaign pieces. At the end of July I attended the American Political...
1796 Dime [ATTACH] The piece with the big cud to the left of the date is supposed to have been the first 1796 dime die pair. There are six 1796...
Okay, I said that I have 7 of the 10, 1796 coins. Here they are. Half Cent I don't have a half cent which is dated 1796, but I know have one...
[ATTACH] Here is the finest known example, an MS-66, by a considerable margin. It last sold for $822,500 in 2015. I think if you saw it in...
I know that you love Proof-Likes. There are P-L 1796 half dollars, but you need to win the Power Ball Lottery or something similar first.
The mint certainly had poor quality control when it produced "the last" 2025 cents and auctioned them off for big bucks. I've seen some in...
It all depends upon the period. If you are talking about the 1990s and up, than yes, most of them are going to be PR-68 to 70. The older stuff...
I think that it's a high end AU that might end up in an MS-62 holder.
It's genuine, but I think it's been cleaned or polished at some point. Here's mine which is graded AU-58. Some people don't like this one...
You guys have better fractional notes than I do. I collected them raw in late 1980s. I completed most of the set, except for the red back Third...
From what I have read, these small three and five cent notes from the Third Issue of fractional notes did not fair well in circulation. That led...
The 15 cent note in the OP was from the Fourth Series of Fractional Currency Notes. There was a scheduled 15 cent note in Third Series of...
I didn’t set out from the beginning to form that set. It was a matter of buying coins for a type set. Since 1795 is a year when many of the coins...
It appears to me that the mint frost has been slightly broken. I think AU-58. The weakness you cite is strike.
Here the gold coins. There are only two. The quarter eagle was introduced in 1796. Half Eagle The half eagle was introduced in July 1795. This...
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