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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1743637, member: 19423&quot;]Went to another bid board the other night. This board is slightly larger than the one I went to over the weekend and looks pretty much like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/cpbidboard2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, in the last hour of bidding there are 15-25 people fighting their way to the front of the board looking at coins and making their bids. Anyways, there wasn&#039;t too much this time around that sparked my interest. There were several MS63-MS64 Franklin Halves dated between 1956-1963 that were uncertified and had some decent album toning. I thought about bidding on a couple of them, but they were pretty popular and the prices quickly got too high for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did end up winning a couple of lower grade seated coins. I always like the one year type coins like the 1853 Arrows &amp; Rays design and whenever I can get one for silver melt value, or not too much above that, I&#039;ll go for it. Sure, both coins have a few issues, but for the price I paid I wasn&#039;t going to be too picky. Plus, I wanted to at least win something as nothing is worse than making the drive to the bid board and coming home with nothing! Here are the coins I won:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/seatedcoinso.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/seatedcoinsr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also stopped by a couple of local coin shops since my last post and picked up a few cool coins. I went back to the shop I mentioned last time around and picked up a few more of those David Hall Numismatic Investment Group flips since I received quite a bit of positive feedback on those from my last post. The new flips I picked up were a couple of proof Roosevelt Dimes, a few mint state Mercury Dimes and a few proof Franklin Half Dollars. Here&#039;s a pic of one of the Franklins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1962frankDHo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1962frankDHr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>At a different coin shop, one that I hadn&#039;t been to in several months, I picked up several coins. One that was particularly interesting was a Morgan Dollar in an old Photo Certified Coin Institute slab. These slabs were pretty neat in that the coin grade was certified, but there was also a photo of the coin encapsulated within the slab. Ever wonder if that coin in your slab has toned since it was graded?? Ever wonder if that copper coin graded &quot;red&quot; that now looks &quot;red-brown&quot; to you has changed since the day the grader made the call?? Well if they still made slabs like this, you would wonder no longer. That said, since they only did a photo of the obverse I don&#039;t know if that reverse rim toning was always there or if it has toned in the slab, haha:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1921photocertobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1921photocertrev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also found a nice looking Columbian Half Dollar in an early 2-piece PCGS slab. These were the slabs that came after the first-generation &quot;rattler&quot; slabs and is basically a rattler slab with a separate plastic ring around it that facilitated stacking of the slabs. I pretty much always look at Columbian Half Dollars because I like the design and I&#039;m from the Chicago area and grew up learning about the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1892-93. This one was a no-brainer purchase not just because of the old slab, but in looking at the coin it&#039;s better than any MS62 Columbian I&#039;ve seen before. I think under today&#039;s grading standards this wouldn&#039;t be questioned in an MS64 holder and is close to MS65. Was very happy to get this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1893cologh62o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1893cologh62r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you&#039;re enjoying the blog posts, please feel free to post your questions or comments!</p><p><br /></p><p>:thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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