John, I'd give your 1909 a solid VF35 Nice pickup. Mind letting it out what you paid? I found mine for five cents in a junk bin. I too am trying to put a circulated set together for the 1940 and older dates. For anything above 1940, I have one folder for circulated, and a Whitman album for UNC 1940-1958 Wheats. I am going to try to make all the possible Philly mints proof if available at a decent price. Though I am not expecting anything before 1950 for the proofs.
A group from work bought 60 tix, we won $8, LOL. We all agreed beforehand if less than $1k we would donate it all to our company hope & family trust fund we established at work a few years ago to help sick or unprepared employees. It's a great cause, but we started it because we had an employee lose his 11 month old son. He was back & forth between our town, KC, & Chicago childrens hospitals for 5 months straight. I walked by engineering everyday & noticed old rack mount servers, 50 lb+ copper wound rheostats, 20-24" monitors with very light pixel loss, etc. This sickened me, so now we have the fund. I most recently sold 25 Palm Treo 855 or 755p smartphones @ $25 each.
today in the mailbox: and what better way to test it with than with the coin that was also in the mailbox: 1990S proof stil need to figure out the light a bit and how to set it at its sharpest (the usb microscope) but i think i wil get nice coinpictures with it
i bought it online on a site called pixmania. they only deliver in Europe as far as i know. Lights are adjustable in strength (8 led lights), you cant say you only want 4 lights tu burn, but you can easely adjust the strengts of the 8 lights. Brand is VEHO and its the x200 (there is a x400 version also) I am sure there will be online stores that have that one that deliver in the states to
Christmas present from the girlfriend. Coin is real nice in hand, but dang these toners are hard to image.
My latest ancient. Domitian (81-96 A.D.) AR Denarius Rome Mint tO: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XIIII, Laureate head right. R: IMP XXII COS XVII CENS P P P, Minerva standing left holding a spear.3.4g 19mm RIC 772 RSC 287 BMCRE 224