1912 Lincoln: PR64 BN.
(Picture is too small to be sure about the PR part).
1941 dime: PR66 FSB.
1926 Sesquicentennial $2.50: MS64.
(Nice color, maybe worth more than most MS65 coins. But could be AU58 if any rub is visible with different lighting).
First a disclaimer: I no longer own any of the four coins. I had purchased them perhaps 15-20 years ago when I was putting together a Type Set which consisted of one coin for each denomination from 1c-$100. I abandoned it before I was finished when I realized it was a bit too ambitious for my blue-collar budget. I think I had around 12-13 of the coins at the time, absent the 20c, $3, $4(DUH) and $10-100. Grade was no object and it was exciting to be looking at the full realm of US coinage instead of a tiny niche it's easy to get comfortable collecting.
I purchased the Cent at a "Cleveland Coin Expo" when that show was being held bi-annually around 2005, a time when there was quite a bit of hub-bub about MS70. Part of the attraction was the holder which meant that it was encapsulated quite a few years prior to that happening and the color was true. I thought it would upgrade to PR65 if resubmitted but would lose the designation(being BN) as well as the holder. The coin was very clean and I always wondered if maybe the "RB" designation meant red-blue.
This Dime was just a lovely coin with a stellar reverse, I always thought it was a couple of obverse ticks away from PR68. It looks to me like it was in an album for a long, long time and developed that bulls-eye sort of tone that really appeals to me. I won it on eBay back when they actually had auctions and we had to sweat out the dreaded snipe.
I bought this little beauty around 2003-4 at the F.U.N. Show. It was in a "Superior Coins" case along with 4-5 others, all graded MS62-MS64 in PCGS and NGC holders. They were quite gracious and we spent about 45 minutes talking while I looked the coins and we discussed their upcoming auction. In the end I bought an NGC MS62 and maybe a year later I cracked it out and submitted it to PCGS. It had such appealing color and strong luster that I thought it might still have another point left but never sent it back to PCGS.
Columbian Expo Half-Dollars are sort of like Morgan Dollars, every collector should have at least one and judging by this forum I think they all do!! Though this coin wasn't part of the Denomination Set it was the blue-green obverse tone that sucked me in. All things considered it's one of those MS58-AU62 kind of coins but it really did have pretty tone. What looks like rub is strike weakness and the luster was complete albeit subdued because of tone. It was a raw eBay purchase.
Comments
PR66BN (I wish I could see the rims better to make sure it's a Proof).
PR67+
MS63
AU55
Coin Photographer.
63
66+
55
58
Successful BST with ad4400, Kccoin, lablover, pointfivezero, koynekwest, jwitten, coin22lover, HalfDimeDude, erwindoc, jyzskowsi, COINS MAKE CENTS, AlanSki, BryceM
Feeling a little lazy on Labor Day; call them all around gem.
Wow, this sure went over like a lead balloon.
65RB
66FB
58
62
Wow some very attractive coins.
MS64BN
PF67
AU58
MS63
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
@Maywood can we get the reveal?
Successful BST with ad4400, Kccoin, lablover, pointfivezero, koynekwest, jwitten, coin22lover, HalfDimeDude, erwindoc, jyzskowsi, COINS MAKE CENTS, AlanSki, BryceM
1912 Lincoln: PR64 BN.
(Picture is too small to be sure about the PR part).
1941 dime: PR66 FSB.
1926 Sesquicentennial $2.50: MS64.
(Nice color, maybe worth more than most MS65 coins. But could be AU58 if any rub is visible with different lighting).
1892 Columbian 1/2 $: MS64.
I forgot to put FB for the Merc in my post.
Successful BST with ad4400, Kccoin, lablover, pointfivezero, koynekwest, jwitten, coin22lover, HalfDimeDude, erwindoc, jyzskowsi, COINS MAKE CENTS, AlanSki, BryceM
Nice coins: Proof 65 Brown. Proof 67+, MS 64, AU 58
First a disclaimer: I no longer own any of the four coins. I had purchased them perhaps 15-20 years ago when I was putting together a Type Set which consisted of one coin for each denomination from 1c-$100. I abandoned it before I was finished when I realized it was a bit too ambitious for my blue-collar budget. I think I had around 12-13 of the coins at the time, absent the 20c, $3, $4(DUH) and $10-100. Grade was no object and it was exciting to be looking at the full realm of US coinage instead of a tiny niche it's easy to get comfortable collecting.
I purchased the Cent at a "Cleveland Coin Expo" when that show was being held bi-annually around 2005, a time when there was quite a bit of hub-bub about MS70. Part of the attraction was the holder which meant that it was encapsulated quite a few years prior to that happening and the color was true. I thought it would upgrade to PR65 if resubmitted but would lose the designation(being BN) as well as the holder. The coin was very clean and I always wondered if maybe the "RB" designation meant red-blue.
This Dime was just a lovely coin with a stellar reverse, I always thought it was a couple of obverse ticks away from PR68. It looks to me like it was in an album for a long, long time and developed that bulls-eye sort of tone that really appeals to me. I won it on eBay back when they actually had auctions and we had to sweat out the dreaded snipe.
I bought this little beauty around 2003-4 at the F.U.N. Show. It was in a "Superior Coins" case along with 4-5 others, all graded MS62-MS64 in PCGS and NGC holders. They were quite gracious and we spent about 45 minutes talking while I looked the coins and we discussed their upcoming auction. In the end I bought an NGC MS62 and maybe a year later I cracked it out and submitted it to PCGS. It had such appealing color and strong luster that I thought it might still have another point left but never sent it back to PCGS.
Columbian Expo Half-Dollars are sort of like Morgan Dollars, every collector should have at least one and judging by this forum I think they all do!! Though this coin wasn't part of the Denomination Set it was the blue-green obverse tone that sucked me in. All things considered it's one of those MS58-AU62 kind of coins but it really did have pretty tone. What looks like rub is strike weakness and the luster was complete albeit subdued because of tone. It was a raw eBay purchase.
Maywood.