Congratulations! That is a nice die crack. :)
I think they look alright, for slabs. Maybe they'll put something from Jackson Pollock on slabbed waffled coins?
The shearing on the left side of the I, moving upwards from the bottom towards the top, tapers towards the B and makes the I appear as if it's...
It's plated brass. I like how they placed the cent sign.
Picked up another combat engineers token: 168th Engineers Battlion, Di An base camp Vietnam, 5.3 grams, 24mm, plated brass, C/A, VN1770c. They...
Real investers, coins or otherwise, are not altruistic.
Compared to my cell pics, you should probably get a Nobel Prize for your photographs. :)
I was in London and bought one of these...or something like it, in a black felt box, from a money exchange in Piccadilly. [IMG] I thought it...
Nice find. But not quite full. It's a L7/8. :)
I have used shims cut from mylar flips to take up slack in Capitol holders. I don't know how well that would work in an album though. I suppose...
My favorites coin series are Seated Dollars, Leopold Thalers, Classic Commemorative halves, Standing Liberty Quarters. But sorry, I collect exonumia.
I was in a bookstore in 1974 and saw a photo of a silver art bar on the cover of CoinAge magazine. I started buying them for $5 each plus 50c...
I bet there's some truth to the joke. Maybe some thief in Tammany Hall sold the bridge to NJ. :p
The Gobrecht Journal Sept-Nov 1982 published an Unc. half dime survey based on: "...200 different public auction catalogues issued since 1972..."...
Does it come with a bottle of Mad Dog and a bridge with Brooklyn provenance?
Survivor numbers can be estimated by the frequency of dates/mintmarks/grades that show up in ads and auctions. I believe the Liberty Seated...
I apologise in advance for the insult, but, IMO, this is like paying someone for the right to beg alms from them.:(
$250. hammers were a bargain. The Navy was paying $600. :p
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