Hot dang!! I can't wait till they open the box.
Very cool! Wish I could stumble across a date that nice in a scrap silver box!
It is awfully sad that these ads are done in such a way to fool the casual coin collector. These people give our hobby a black eye.
I voted before I read the replies and it appears I am in good company. While the toning is not a deciding factor for me, I am just a fan of the...
Old wheat cents are a wonderful entry into coin collecting. Like others, I still save each one if come across and have thousands of them tucked...
Been a pleasure knowing you and here’s to many more years to come!
You and I think alike. My most prized coins are details coins that allowed me to afford them.
If my business were as a coin dealer, I would absolutely be furious that my cash was tied up for ninety days. This shouldn’t have to be tolerated....
I will pray for a Christmas miracle for you.
I have heard of guys leaving cleaned coins on their window ledge exposed to the sunlight and having the coin develop an acceptable “skin”…. I have...
Hey Top…. Just addressing the “finding in the wild” part of your question…… For fifty years I collected old coins and never gave a second thought...
Do you get any respect now that you have a new avatar?
That is solid. I much like!
I had to read that three times…. LOL
A lamination is when the planchet is defective and often a sliver of the surface will lift away. They are very common on war nickels.
Yeah…. Probably a high school experiment. They still look unusual enough to be eye catching.
Very cool. I don’t know the background but it appears you have been the recipient of a silver bugs collection. Very much up my alley….. As far as...
The lady I work with brought me her coins a while back to give her an idea of what she has.... One coin is a 1916 Mercury dime and it too has a...
Oh jeez mountainman….. You are a fortunate man to have walked away from that!
I did some construction work on several historic buildings in my city. It was made abundantly clear to me that any artifacts that turned up during...
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