After 17 years of collecting I only have 8 coins...

I bought it because I thought it was sharp for the grade.

 

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One issue which cannot be seen in your photographs is luster. If it does show, even some or partially, then you have an excellent shot at an AU50 coin. A XF coin usually has none, or at the higher end, just a trace.

 

No, No luster. It could be XF-45.

 

Rats, medoraman will want my first born for that one. :>) I should have asked first about the luster and posted later.

 

I just look for coins that look nice, and are affordable. Mainly non-US for me, more selection!

 

Hello Gobrecht,
IMO you need to get one of these dimes dated either 1837 or 1838-O to go with your collection. They have no stars like a nice Gobrecht dollar coin.

 

Those coins are my want list so much that they're ingrained into my psyche.

 

you cannot go wrong in collecting seated coinage. that's money in the bank. plus they look cool.... go for at least XF-AU grade if you can afford them.

 

ya know most collectors are all over the place.. me I am too but not as much as I once was now im looking for oddities an varities as well as grade cents, two cent, 3 cents, nickels , and all the rest of the u.s. issues I have 153 cents to this date certified

 

I want one I will trade for gobrecht

 

If you are only going to have 8 coins, may as well have the best!

 

Im a metal fabricator by trade. Lots of nice detail work with brass, aluminum and copper, so the cent came really natural to me to collect. I love how copper is reactive with its environment, so when I get a bag, everyone is different in some way. Silver coins are different to me, they are either nice or ugly. The middle ground on silver is very limited, in my eyes.

 

I bought this in 1980 for $15 with the idea that
since I wasn't rich, just yet, it would do for the
moment.

Been the longest moment I ever heard of.

The weird stuff in the fields are hazing and the
reflection of the cell case.

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