I have had company over and had them ask about coins. The first coin I showed was an 1807 Draped Bust Half dollar in VF 30. The coin has red/blue target toning on the front and Cobalt and gold toning on the reverse. It is the only coin the woman I have been with for over 45 years has actually asked to see. That makes it a miracle coin.
The second coin I showed was an 1846-O Seated Dollar in VF-35. I think the coin is better than any AU 46-O I have ever seen and has beautiful sky blue/gold tone. I told them all a simple fact. "You are holding the first silver dollar ever made in the history of the United States outside of Philadelphia. Say what you want, but this is the real history of America you are looking at and most of that history was made all over America not just in the Metro East."
James
You have to be careful; of course there are people you can trust, but word gets out this guy has a lot of high value collectibles, could be a theft target especially with desperate people and druggies.
I rarely show my collection, but once we had a couple over that we had been together several times and I showed them one item, but it wasn't a coin. It was the below note.
It was mind blowing that I had a note before the US was even a country.
There are several variations of this "old coin" story:
A man living in New York has just returned from a trip to Istanbul and throws a party at his apartment.
He pulls out a plastic bag of large dirty old copper coins and tells his guests that he walked by a construction site where the wives of some of the workers were selling bags of Byzantine coins found by workers and bought a bag for a few dollars.
At the party, he opens the bag and hands out the coins which still have dirt on them.
He then begins talking about the coins of Justinian and having determined the time the coins were buried to around 540 to 550 AD.
His guests are passing the coins around while the host explains that there was a plague or "black death" epidemic in the city at the time and that whoever dropped the coins was probably dying horribly of plague.
By now all of the guests are running to the bathroom or kitchen and scrubbing their hands with soap, detergent, cleaning powder.
Byzantine Justinian (AD 527-565) AE Follis
Bronze, 30mm, 17.98gm, Struck AD 527-538 Constantinople
Obverse: Justinian facing right / D N IVSTINI-ANVS PP AVG
Reverse: Large letter "M", star, two crosses, CON and Gamma at bottom
Grade: PF-30 (Plague Free)
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I have had company over and had them ask about coins. The first coin I showed was an 1807 Draped Bust Half dollar in VF 30. The coin has red/blue target toning on the front and Cobalt and gold toning on the reverse. It is the only coin the woman I have been with for over 45 years has actually asked to see. That makes it a miracle coin.
The second coin I showed was an 1846-O Seated Dollar in VF-35. I think the coin is better than any AU 46-O I have ever seen and has beautiful sky blue/gold tone. I told them all a simple fact. "You are holding the first silver dollar ever made in the history of the United States outside of Philadelphia. Say what you want, but this is the real history of America you are looking at and most of that history was made all over America not just in the Metro East."
James
You have to be careful; of course there are people you can trust, but word gets out this guy has a lot of high value collectibles, could be a theft target especially with desperate people and druggies.
I rarely show my collection, but once we had a couple over that we had been together several times and I showed them one item, but it wasn't a coin. It was the below note.
It was mind blowing that I had a note before the US was even a country.
My current registry sets:
20th Century Type Set
Virtual DANSCO 7070
Slabbed IHC set - Missing the Anacs Slabbed coins
There are several variations of this "old coin" story:
A man living in New York has just returned from a trip to Istanbul and throws a party at his apartment.
He pulls out a plastic bag of large dirty old copper coins and tells his guests that he walked by a construction site where the wives of some of the workers were selling bags of Byzantine coins found by workers and bought a bag for a few dollars.
At the party, he opens the bag and hands out the coins which still have dirt on them.
He then begins talking about the coins of Justinian and having determined the time the coins were buried to around 540 to 550 AD.
His guests are passing the coins around while the host explains that there was a plague or "black death" epidemic in the city at the time and that whoever dropped the coins was probably dying horribly of plague.
By now all of the guests are running to the bathroom or kitchen and scrubbing their hands with soap, detergent, cleaning powder.
Byzantine Justinian (AD 527-565) AE Follis
Bronze, 30mm, 17.98gm, Struck AD 527-538 Constantinople
Obverse: Justinian facing right / D N IVSTINI-ANVS PP AVG
Reverse: Large letter "M", star, two crosses, CON and Gamma at bottom
Grade: PF-30 (Plague Free)
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