Five-Cent Friday-part2 ...Post yours too!

Hello everyone. This is second time that I've done this one. Hence the part 2...LOL.
Since it's Friday and windy/rainy, I'm calling this " Five-Cent Friday part 2".just because I love coins and well... I'm not doing anything at the moment.
These two Nickels are from a contest that I won on another site. I don't know why one would grade these is beyond me. Any ideas how this is cost effective? I'm just happy to have them.

 

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Here's a coin roll find from a long time ago (before I improved my photography).

 

Birth year PR67:

 

Sal, There’s a simple explanation…someone thought they would grade higher to justify the cost. And cost effectiveness sometimes has absolutely nothing to do with it…imo…Spark

 

Here's a different 5 cent coin, the first one, the 1792 half disme. This was my first "really big coin" which I bought in the mid 1990s.



Research as shown that Thomas Jefferson had 1,500 of these coins made from Spanish (probably) silver dollars that he obtained from the First Bank of the United States in mid July 1792. He took them with him when he set out by coach to his Virginia home, Monticello. Perhaps an additional 500 were struck at the first United States mint in the fall of 1792.

Today there are about 325 survivors. Some of those are badly damaged or have a hole.

 

Please John.... Every thread that comes up. I don't care what that thread may be about.... Please post this half disme in the thread.

 

Well good lord, I can't compete with a half disme.

I'll contribute a humble 1972 D double struck

 

In following your lead @SensibleSal66, this coin was also won by me. The awesome benefactor of this piece already posted in this thread Right Randy?

 

Here are the three early types of half dimes. I have been enamored with these coins since high school. Some people don't like them because they are very small. Just think of the effort it took to make the dies for these tiny coins, given the amount of detail they have.

Flowing Hair, 1794-5. The 1795 is the most common date among the early half dimes from 1792 to 1805.



Draped Bust, Small Eagle, 1796-7



Draped Bust, Large Eagle, 1800-5

 

First nickel ever minted ...

 

So the story I have heard about him pilfering Mrs. Jefferson's silverware is an old wives tale?

 

Yea, the original story was the George Washington donated "Martha's flatware" for the coins. That has been debunked. Having Thomas Jefferson handle the coins is even better. He might have touched the piece I posted. He gave the half dismes out as tips on his way to Monticello.

 

Tips, Tip? If only that kind oF kindness still existed?
Love stories like that....
John or anyone else? Got any GW buttons? Know a person who found 4, yes 4 in ONE DAY! 3 in one yard and one in another. True story...
If so, post them for my "Token Tuesday" thread.

 

The closest I'll ever come to the "John Milton Collection."

@Randy Abercrombie , these are for you . . . . .

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Here are a couple "misplaced sense" over-strikes.

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Yes, I only have one, and it's quite nice. Collecting these pieces is a big financial commitment, especially when you want pieces with the original shank intact. 19th century collectors had a bad habit of breaking them off so that they would sit flat in coin cabinets.



From what I have read, these pieces were worn like cufflinks. They were not sewn on the coat; they were attached.

 

Very nice specimen! Yes, I've heard that they are just attached crudely. That explains all the buttons that I have found metal detecting.

 

I just picked this up this morning at a coin show in Gettysburg, PA.

 

Have an offer in on a pretty 1/2 dime (with about an hour left on the "auction" (too high a start price.. no bids.. I offered the seller list.. I expect a positive answer shortly after auction closes still with no bids lol)

Yup yup he accepted with 11 minutes to go