Anyone want to share their new purchases?

LCS buy today, not a coin, my first PT. The sticker is the stock number, not what I paid.

I thought this Peace dollar has character.

My first commemorative gold dollar. I don't intend to fill the old Wayte Raymond page, but might consider getting the $2.50 coins some day. The other 20th century gold dollars aren't that interesting to me.

These in today.

Wayne

1803 S-264 Large date, small fraction

Another GC auction win........

For the wife
Bought it raw and just got it back from PCGS.

It’s been a while since I’ve bought anything! This is a pop one coin— in fact there aren’t many PL clad quarters in the entire Washington series

Bought this at the last Great Collections auction, MS66 CAC. It arrived less than 48 hours after I bought it.

Bought this 1885-O from GreatCollections last week for $113.62


I forgot to add some pick-ups. 1889-P off Ebay for $45 and a 1882-CC from a local coin shop for $300

@johnhenry9009 said:
Bought this 1885-O from GreatCollections last week for $113.62


I forgot to add some pick-ups. 1889-P off Ebay for $45 and a 1882-CC from a local coin shop for $300

1st one looks to have a pl

A couple kennedy upgrades.

Not a usual purchase for me, but I was struck by the beauty of this >2000 year old coin.

Heritage had a recent write up about these:
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Perseus (179-168 BC). AR drachm (15mm, 2.71 gm, 7h). NGC MS 5/5 - 4/5. Pseudo-Rhodian, Greek mercenaries issue, ca. 175-170 BC, Ermias, magistrate. Head of Helios facing, turned slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side / EPMIAΣ, rose with single bud on tendril to right; Ξ-Ω flanking stem. SNG Keckman 793-795 (Thessaly).

The last independent king of Macedon, Perseus inherited the throne from his father Philip V after the latter had his pro-Roman son Demetrius executed. Thus the tone was set from the outset of his reign for an eventual clash, which proved fatal to the Antigonid monarchy and Macedonian independence. Perseus skillfully rebuilt the Macedonian army and a network of marriage alliances during the first years of his reign, which the Romans watched with rising alarm. The Third Macedonian War broke out in 171 BC, and for a time Perseus employed guerrilla tactics which gave him the initiative and kept the Romans on their heels. Like his father, though, he chose to risk all in a single pitched battle at Pydna and lost badly to the Roman general Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Perseus surrendered and was allowed to live out his life in comfortable captivity in Rome; the Macedonian Kingdom was divided into four theoretically autonomous Republics which were soon subsumed into direct Roman rule. The coinage of Perseus is one of the more attractive of the Hellenistic series.

1914-S PCGS MS66 - only 9 finer, all MS66+

1910-D PCGS MS66+ (only 2 graded higher)

Several years ago, I learned about the cool story of the 1861-O half dollars--First issued by the USA, then by Louisiana, then by the CSA. Somebody did the excurciating research to determine which die pair was struck by which authority.

I decided that I wanted one struck by the USA, one struck by the state of Louisiana, and one struck by the CSA. Louisiana and CSA examples are relatively easy to find (though the CSA ones can be expensive). But a USA one had eluded me.

Finally, I believe I got one! I'm not a risk-taker, but, using the excellent photos provided by Stack's Bowers, I felt confident enough that their attribution of W-01 (USA issue) was correct for a coin they had up for auction, and I bid on it. And got it.

I'll be submitting it to PCGS for attribution. I'm very pleased.