Post your key dates or important varieties.

This one shows the clash from the quarter on the reverse and the quarter shows the clash from the cent.

 

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Those two were “dream coins” for me for many years. After visiting Dahlonega, I decided to form a type set of each design and denomination that mint issued. Those two are the toughest in the type set.

Everything that mint issued is scarce to rare. Over its 24 year existence, the Dahlonega Mint issued about 1.3 million coins in total. That compares with mintage for the 1914-D Lincoln Cent.

 

When I first ran across the "PQ" on a slab at a coin show, the dealer told me it stood for "Prom Queen". I believed that for about an hour.

 

Shades of Paul Sims and slider phobia.........

 

Here's a 1926-S duo. The cent has mint luster on the obverse and is quite tough in that grade. Typical 1920s branch mint garbage strike however.




1858 Inverted Date half dime - this was amazingly a cherrypick as a normal 1858



1840-O Half Dime With Drapery

 

Here are my favorite rarities. I think the 1871 Proof Half Dime is the lowest mintage that I have at 960. The 1893 Isabella Quarter mintage, after they melted a bunch of unsold ones, was 24,214 (it was a commemorative for the 1893 Columbian Exposition - first quarter with a woman and first US coin with a monarch on it, and it was priced the same as the Columbian Exposition half dollar - at $1, so most folks bought the half dollar). The Feuchtwanger 3 cent pieces are very rare - he was an interesting fellow - a pharmacist and metallurgist, among other things, and his pieces are interesting to me as he attempted to get Congress to adopt his design and to use nickel in coins in 1837 (and later years) but was unsuccessful. Nonetheless because currency was in short supply his "coins" were used in commerce. Of course Congress outlawed private currency in 1864, which also ended the California fractional gold currency, though they were still produced as "tokens" or "bangles" for some years and used as currency until 1883, when the Secret Service began cracking down, starting with Frederick Linde, a Los Angeles jeweler. I like my 1876 AU Details octagon 50 cent California Fractional gold piece a lot. Of course the King of the Standing Liberty Quarters is the 1916 - which was only produced in December of 1916, the last year of the Barber Quarter, with a mintage of 52,000, PCGS estimates that 10,000 survive. The SLQ design until 1925 had a raised date that commonly wore off in circulation. The 1860-S Seated Liberty Quarter mintage was 56,000. And the 1893-O dollar posted the lowest mintage figure for any New Orleans Mint silver dollar of the Morgan design, at 300,000.

 

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1901 Vam-3 Shifted Eagle

 

Love your coins! An 1860-S quarter in any grade is a coin to be proud of, as is the Feuchtwanger 3C. Maybe try that one at ANACS if you want it in a slab?

 

That's a good idea! I also have an NGC body bagged 1795 plain edge large cent that I eventually want slabbed. I was thinking of saving up for that PCGS membership where they give you 4 vouchers and sending them in there. I am eager to try ANACS out, but have been waiting for a special I can use - I never submitted coins to any TPGS prior to a few years ago, but I have a fair number of PCGS, NGS, ANACS and ICG coins in the collection. I have done submissions to ICG on the CoinTalk special and been very impressed and pleased with that, but I know that some collectors only think PCGS matters - and for an expensive coin like the Feuchtwanger 3 cent, I'm thinking maybe I have them slab it and pay the premium. Do you have any opinions / experiences with ANACS or the other TPGSs?

 

Some key and/or interesting coppers:

 

Some key and/or interesting half dimes and dimes:

 

Why get hung up on certification unless you are looking to sell the pieces? There are still many token and medal collectors who prefer their pieces raw. I do. I much prefer raw pieces because they are easier to photograph and take up much less storage space.

Having a token or medal in a “details” holder is not going to net much more, or any more money. I would prefer to spend my numismatic budget on more items, not certification holders.

 

Keep in mind that PCGS won't grade the coin. They may put it in a details slab. Nice coin.

 

I want it slabbed so I can display it in my slab display and I want it authenticated. I suppose I could use ICG (who I've used and appreciate) or ANACS, but for a higher value piece (in terms of my collection) I was thinking I'd do a first PCGS submission.

Yes, it (and the 1795 large cent) are Details pieces, that isn't an issue for me. I'm a collector, I typically only sell when I'm upgrading or changing direction in regard to the collection. BTW, I didn't submit these to NGC - I've never submitted to anyone but ICG yet (I am eventually going to submit some of my world coins and medals to NGC I think). I find that NGC body bagged pieces sell at a nice discount and I try to focus on the coin, not the slab.

I'd appreciate any thoughts on whether it would be better to submit it to ICG or ANACS if anyone has any. Again, I'm not having these slabbed to resell them. I like big four TPGS slabs and want these in them at some point for my collection.

 

Type of 1856