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KollectorKing
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Purchased as part of a seated denomination set from an ancient (in age) dealer from the Midwest. Every other coin in the set was cleaned, polished, plugged or whizzed.
And another...
Bought this from a pawn shop for $3.50. It was mixed in with a bunch of common silver quarters, not sure how it was overlooked. This is the second one I have come across in a little under two years.
This piece was raw when I bought it. It was sitting in an album since 1960 or so. It's now NGC VG08. I guess the two little rim nicks on the reverse knocked it down from its details grade of VG10. It's got nice original surfaces for a Draped Bust quarter.
http://www.shieldnickels.net
That's a pretty sweet and clean 1804. I'm so used to seeing Fr-Fine examples that are harshly stripped and cleaned in graded holders that I figured they all were. Yours is in the top 20% regardless. I'd bet 75% or more of all specimens are cleaned. Probably very lightly cleaned over 50 years ago leaving some light patches and faint wipe lines. Those lines could be from an album or having jostled around in a wooden drawer for years. But, it sure looks quite nice as is. Very presentable for the grade. I like it. The only other 1804 silver coin that comes worse is the dime.
Looks like you have a few laminations/delams on the obverse of this 1912.
That is a great looking seated half.
Great looking coins and tough to boot.
I must say, the very first picture in this thread has the tiny remnant of a broken staple, I cringed. Then a few pictures later a coin in a 2X2 has the staples bumped out. Crush them flat so I can sleep at night.
Nice old coins.... Most have seen some commerce. Cheers, RickO
I really like howards 1880 shield!
It's an interesting piece. I bought it raw, and it wound up in a SEGS 55 holder.
It is a coin that the major TPGs would not slab as a business strike because it does not have the island reverse. Nevertheless, this coin shows some characteristic business strike weakness in the shield and on the leaves, IMO.
http://www.shieldnickels.net
Howard,
It sure looks business strike to me. David hall (a tenn dealer, not pcgs hall) has one very similar without the island under T in states and PCGS graded his AU-55. A few years ago , rick raff did a presentation on shield nickels specifically the 1880 and mention how many of the same dies were used both for proofs and business strikes , this was noted on three cent nickels as well.
U.S. Type Set
It wasn't too long ago that I tried to fill up albums rather than build registry sets. I did buy the 22 plain, doubled dies, and 18/7-D in slabs though (and kept them that way).
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
- Jim
Here's my raw 1897 O Barber Half before submission to PCGS:
It came back from PCGS as an AU 58.
Semi key. I found this one roaming in the wild a while back.
Here's another raw one....
Still playing with the camera.
Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014
To my surprise, I found this today. I was given a small collection by a non-collector a few months ago and just got around to looking at the roll of Liberty nickels. Looks low grade, but might be a decent find if it straight grades at fr-02 or ag-03
