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I would guess that many of the “dealers” who are buying $1000 coins off of HA and listing them for 3k on eBay are carrying lots and lots of credit card debt.

The annoying thing about business practices is that they have to work. As has been stated, businesses that add zero value to their marketplace tend to come and go regularly.

@logger7 said:
I'll follow up if the guy sends me some pictures as he agreed to do after a long talk on the phone.

Great! I am curious to see what the "official tag" looks like!

KILLER 1803 @RAB

Wow, now that is a fantastic upgrade!!

@mach19 said:
**WAY TOO MANY " KARENS " IN THIS FORUM !!! **

Keep on digging.

The 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar was issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and to help finance the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Struck at the Philadelphia Mint with up to 1,000,000 pieces authorized, the coin was designed by John Sinnock. The obverse features the heads of George Washington and Calvin Coolidge facing right, while the reverse depicts the cracked Liberty Bell, surrounded by the inscription “Sesquicentennial of American Independence.”

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929.

@NJCoin said:

@CaptHenway said:

@JBK said:

@cinque1543 said:
Thank you, Kellen, for the post.

The quote from the NYT struck home: “No nation on earth has issued coins with the image of a democratically elected leader during the time of their service”. IMAO, that is as it should be, regardless of political persuasion.

The NYT is blatantly lying.

The 1926 sesquicentennial half dollar pictured sitting President Calvin Coolidge.

I will give them the benefit of the doubt, blaming ignorance rather than lying.

And what about the 1921 Alabama half dollar? Was the current Governor of Alabama not an "elected leader?"

I don't think that the Arkansas and Virginia Senators qualify as the latter.

Of the entity issuing the coin? No. Unless Alabama was the nation issuing the half dollar.

You're adding further conditions to try to validate their assertion.

The NYT claimed:

"No nation on earth has issued coins with the image of a democratically elected leader during the time of their service”.

That statement was already very narrowly crafted to try to eliminate examples where other living people, including living former foreign leaders, have been portrayed on coins. They got it flat out wrong in regard to Coolidge, and also with the Alabama governor because they didn't specify "the" leader of a "country".

They were pretty specific with their wording.

In any case, they were undeniably wrong with Coolidge. The Alabama governor was just icing on the cake.

@TheRegulator said:

@jmlanzaf said:
Why would the whole roll be speared eagles? What if there's just one and it's in the middle?

Please show us where he stated that the whole roll would be speared eagles.

He's simply giving an obverse die diagnostic.

Since you asked, he wrote:
" You don't want to sell an unopened mint roll of 2000-P's Sacagawea Dollars on eBay for 40 or 50 bucks of their are speared eagles inside." (Sic)

If you were opening the rolls, you wouldn't be selling unopened rolls. And if you opened the roll, the speared eagle would be easier to see than the small dot. The diagnostic is useless for the coins "inside".

Why would you look for that rather than at the eagles?