Let's see your newest acquisitions!

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by H8_modern, Feb 25, 2011.

  1. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator

    Very cool. While my wife takes no interest, my daughter also does not at this time, but used to sit on my lap when in grammar school and search the internet with me.

    While she hadn't learned the intricacies of grading, she appreciated originality and readily identified problem coins and artificial toning, so I hold out hope that she'll someday become interested again.
     
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  3. RonSanderson

    RonSanderson Supporter! Supporter

    Let's get an impression of this coin with lovely reflective surfaces and tons of luster. It is really bright and brilliant, more than I can capture.

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    And then take a look at a closeup of the surfaces.

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    The horizontal scratches right near the bottom of the photo show white at the top and gray at the bottom. Since this is lit from the top edge of the coin, this means they are raised above the surface - almost like catching the rising sun. So they are incuse on the die, and are from some intense cleaning of the die.

    The face is also heavily scratched (not to the naked eye, though) but those lines are not continuations of the lines on the fields. If there were continuous lines from the fields to the devices I would call it harshly cleaned. Instead, we can call the die recently polished. In fact, it looks like it has been reworked enough to lessen the sharpness of the hair near the ear.

    Just to stir the pot, exactly why is it we accept harsh cleaning / polishing if it was done to the die in the mint, but not if it was done by a collector later in time? I don't see all that much difference between a scratch that is incuse and one that is raised. Just something to think about, is all. :troll: :joyful: :woot:
     
  4. micbraun

    micbraun coindiccted

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    1826 PCGS Bust half, O-114 R4

    I just bought it to bump this thread...
     
  5. CircCam

    CircCam Victory

  6. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I won this last night. It's going into my type set.
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  7. jonathan layne

    jonathan layne Well-Known Member

    1941-s and 1943 mercury dime from @1916D10C
     
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  8. cash4coin

    cash4coin ran 20 redlights

    guy across town answered my ad in the local newspaper and sold me a book of mercury dimes, minus the 16D for $300. The 42/41 was there.

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  9. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    My Apollo $5 gold proof arrived this evening. It’s a bear to photograph for me. Maybe one of you folks with superior photo skills will post if you bought one.

    At any rate, I really like this one!

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  10. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Best cameo I’ve seen on pre-65 silver proof coinage. So for 13 bucks, it’s mine! AAEA3847-C8A1-4221-9185-54425F7B34EA.jpeg 140679C0-6A11-4508-86BE-D1E2B496B443.jpeg
    None of those little white squiggly things are on the coin, it’s just light reflection.
     
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  11. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    Heck, somebody ought to put that picture beside the word cameo in the dictionary.
     
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  12. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Thanks bud! This isn’t the type of thing i’m really into at the moment, I couldn’t pass it up though. Right place, right time!
     
  13. charlietig

    charlietig Well-Known Member


    Mint did a nice job with that one....
     
  14. JPeace$

    JPeace$ Coinaholic

  15. Ike Skywalker

    Ike Skywalker Well-Known Member

    Got my half dollar sets in today. The curved coin is tricky to photograph. I had to change up the lighting quite a bit between the obverse and reverse shots.

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  16. charlietig

    charlietig Well-Known Member

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  17. Hugh Stiel

    Hugh Stiel Made in New Orleans

    5FCBE699-2283-4873-9E07-6B0507B321F0.jpeg hi Everyone it has been to long since I’ve post pictures of newp’s. Tonight I will begin catching up. I hope you all have been goin well and staying out of trouble. Oh, that was me, I forget. You’ll be happy to know I have kept my nose to the grind stone and have had no run ins with the Coin ‍♀️.
    I’m going to simply start at the end of my album and begin uploading. I’m sorry if I’ve sent a few up already and your seeing them for second time I’m still a coin collector ONLY with a new page for coins C2CCollector.com. Since starting the page Coin World has copied my plan and Heritage has used pieces. Coping my slogan and more . That great to me.... here we go... 01336530-729F-4299-8D50-B56CB339A10F.jpeg
     
  18. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    Good to see you back Hugh. I’ve been off and on here a lot too last couple years
     
  19. sonlarson

    sonlarson World Silver Collector

    Hard to image the Obverse of the new Apollo 11 coins. Reverse a little easier.

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    Uncirculated Dollar
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    Proof Half
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    Uncirculated Half
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  20. C-B-D

    C-B-D Well-Known Member

    I'm going to singlehandedly kill the market for these if I keep finding them. Pop 3 in all grades and I've found 3 others in the last month alone! FS-901 Rusted Reverse Die.
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  21. charlietig

    charlietig Well-Known Member

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