Terrific Three-Cent Tuesday- Post yours too!

Hello everyone! Hope all is well despite the Storm down South. Today I'm calling " Terrific Three-Cent Tuesday"!! Please post one of yours too! Thanks!!
Here's my 1866 Three-Cent (Nickel) piece:

 

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Gosh, this coin was only 100 years old when I bought it. Now it's over 150.
Still in dealer's 2x2.

 

Did you really pay $3.75??

 

A couple of mine:

 

Yes. A lot to spend using lawn mowing money. Funny, an inflation calculator says $3.75 is roughly $30 today, which is exactly the NGC price guide. So I broke even.

 

Cool. Didn't know you were that old. Lawn mowing sure has changed...
What's also strange is that I paid $30 for mine less than 10 years ago. I don't know what grade it is? I liked it because it's 100 years before I was born.

 

I have one or two 3-centers in my collection. I always wanted one of the scarcer dates and this 1870 seemed quite nice.

 

Here is mine (1872). Don't know if this is a planchet defect, or a lamination, or a lamination with a clip.

 

Here is an 1851-O Silver Three Cent Piece. I have always been partial to these.

 

As sorry looking as she is I'm happy to have one. There sure are some beautiful examples posted here!

 

I cracked this one out of the ANACS slab and removed most of the glue residue with acetone. Full 180 degree rotated dies as well.

 

Have an 1860 contemporary counterfeit as well.

 

i didn't know I was that old either. It was the most I spent on a coin during that era I think. Franklin's in BU were $1.50. Earned $5 for mowing acre-sized lawns. Lotta sweat went into that purchase. I also bought mine because it was over 100 years old, and I thought it was so cool - a three cent coin? Crazy!

 

here's mine

 

Here’s a couple

 

My only one

MS 62

 

Yes, it’s NGC graded MS-63. I bought it raw many years ago from JJ Teaparty, when it was in Boston, from the late Bruce Longyear.