I've never collected ancients, and never met Bill, but am saddened that we've lost another in our community.
From an old post . . . I'm still waiting for a 1907 quarter eagle that was mailed to me from England sometime before 2010. It was tracked to US...
[IMG] CUTE CHICK!
Were it not for the coin being a 1921, I'd say no. You might get lucky, and $25 seems worth gambling to take a shot.
If you don't have calipers or a mic, you can crudely measure the diameter with a metric tape. Alternatively, you can pencil mark the edge some...
If it is the J-171, the composition is 60% copper & 40% nickel, and usually looks like steel rather than nickel.
Take your time to really examine it closely. You may have a real pattern . . . possibly J-171, if it's real.
Also, the clear effort to cram the entire message on a small scrap of paper, rather than starting again on another sheet of paper points to the...
Did you attribute it as counterfeit, or did others?
Very cool . . . nugget and note actually from the Gold Rush! "Gold given me by Mother's brother, Eben Owen sometime in the early fifties on his...
Double eagle . . . can't recall, but don't want to not play
Magically Delicious! . . . sort of.
Liberty nickel
AU58
Can't say I have any generational coins, although my paternal grandmother did some collecting. I don't believe I saved any of those coins. I...
Participation trophy for a non-starter . . .
Neat!
What was it that Daffy Duck used to say? . . . "Mine, mine, mine . . . all mine." Tell'em to bury it deep in their mine shafts.
Mere window dressing . . . They know their consumer protection is inferior, and they know we know it. They don't care that it will remain...
Dam ice!
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