I'm not buying this coin; I'm just using eBay and other resources to learn. Others have explained how color is often the indicator of a copper...
Great looking cud; I've rarely seen one on a Lincoln!
NICE! I'll go VF-30. I started another thread in which I expressed my new found interest in EACs, so I'll follow this thread as I continue to learn.
I think it will get the green bean. The toning is rather attractive to people who like toned coins, and walkers are sometimes difficult to find...
It doesn't look like a bad coin at all for someone putting together a circulated set.
I don't know anything about grading these coins, but those scratches are painful to see!
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Ladies and gents, I was going through my quarter collection this morning because I had nothing to do. I glanced at my Red Book and noticed there...
After reading some more today, I think I'm going to start by going for all five head varieties of 1839.
Holy smokes, dude. You're right. In fact, this is one of the BEST Lincoln cent collections I've ever seen.
It's funny, I'm a local and I've never been to summer seminar. Doh. I can't make it this year, either, because I have to work.
Jared, it looks like others have already given you the information you're searching for. However, I would like to add that you could very easily...
Wizard Coin Supply sells a few, but I don't use anything and can't speak to their quality.
Hahaha...they could have done so much better with the Sac coin. If I was one of her descendants (I'm Scottish, but *IF* I was) I would be...
I was teaching a group of Boy Scouts their Coin Collecting merit badge the other night, and to my surprise, even the adults were engaged. I kind...
Thanks for posting this. I haven't taken much of an interest in these, but I know they're out there. My father gave me two store cards, which...
What a unique bunch of folks these guys are. For some reason, after 30 years of collecting, I've suddenly been bitten by the copper bug. I have...
I have the ANA correspondence course for detecting counterfeit coins. It was made in the 1990s when ANACS was part of the ANA, and he is the main...
That's just good ol' fashioned logic, right there. Think about it: It was buried. In the ground. Probably for a LOOOONG time. So it has some...
Ummm...dude. I have a history degree. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's an accepted fact within the history profession / history academia.
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