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Picked up this 1857 O Seated Half nice clashes on the reverse shield, now what other 1857 was famous for clashes?

I also picked up this 1911 Barber dime. I must say both coins are much better in hand than the images show.

 

I ordered 2 of those sold out set yesterday on line. so I get the idea to take ride down town Philadelphia and see if they have any.
I get there , found a nice parking spot near Ben Franklin's grave.
As I approach the intersection a large crow of children, all in line , are headed toward the mint. I speed it up to get ahead of them, go to the counter, they are sold out of them. The clerk said I was a half hour late, they had 300 to sell.
Now I was at the mint by 1:15, oh well noting ventured, nothing gained.
But I did go to the 4 for a dollar machine and go these. I mean I had to get something.

 

As a collector of Lincoln Cents, I could not resist these 2 the 1919-D was $15.00 and the 1930-D was $4.00. Sure beats sending in my 2.

 

1938 DDD WRPM 001 Plus DDR 001 <---Variety @Seattlite86

A special thanks to Seattlite86 for his help landing this one. It's in an PCI Green holder it is noted as an DD .

 

Here's another PCI green holder that arrived today (and will eventually be added to Paddy's set).

 

Recent Standing Liberty quarter purchases - 1920-D VF & 1921 VF-30:

 

I started following this one because it was listed as an 1881-O and I knew the features looked like a VAM 1D - Flaky Eye. But then when you look at the reverse the image is of an 1881-S.



So we are left with three options for those of you who might be thinking about VAMing.
1. The eBay seller posted the wrong reverse picture (most likely)
2. The New Orleans Mint shipped this obverse die to San Francisco for some reason and they used it. (Very unlikely but stranger things have happened)
3. The Flaky Eye feature is from a master die and working dies were created for New Orleans and San Francisco. (Least likely because none others have surfaced)

I look forward to the coin's arrival to see which one. Even if it is just the wrong picture it is a winner because I will have a VAM 1D - Flaky Eye for $37.01, and that is never a bad thing.

 

I stuck my hand out and got
Three 2oz. Silver White Whales

 

1924-D HL(Headless) Standing Liberty Quarter

1957-D Lincoln Wheat

 

Ouch. Other than the hole that's a very nice SLQ - might have been a FH too (pun intended). That's the 'common' date/mintmark coin I'm still looking for.

 

My newest 1818 quarter arrived today. It's my third 1818, but it's the first one that isn't an 1818/5. It's Browning-6, R.4, graded G4 by NGC, and has a green CAC sticker on it. I believe it is the terminal die State with the sliver/piece missing at the crack on the eagle's left wing.

The "T" punch used when preparing the reverse die was defective, with a chip missing at the bottom of all three T's. This adds to the "coolness" factor in my opinion.

Photos are from GreatCollections; the bright line in front of Liberty's face is all but invisible in hand.

 

That's the most beautiful holed coin I've ever seen. It makes me cringe to think about ruining such a nice piece but at least the placement of the hole shows some creativity.

 

And speaking of classic quarters, here are my photos of my newest addition which I'm very proud of (although I'm envious of the circ cam look yours has). A very low survival type coin with just good honest wear. I wonder what stories it could tell?

 

Beautiful quarter! It appears to be Browning-4. The obverse die was actually reannealed and had a 6 punched over the 5, creating the 1806/5 overdate.

 

Thanks for the attribution! It got me interested in looking up the varieties online, and the coin in hand definitely matches the Browning 4 diagnostics. I was happy to acquire a type that is scarce in general and now it looks like I scored an R4 variety within the type.

So now my question is, does an R4 carry a premium for this series or does it have to be an even rarer variety? I suppose it would depend on how many people collect these by variety.

 

From what I've gathered/read, they usually don't attract too much of a premium until they hit R.5. That said, I would always pick an R.4 over an R.2 (assuming price, eye appeal, etc. are roughly equal) just for the coolness factor.

 

Me too. Equaled only by the PCGS slabs.