@johnny9434 what the hell man. That is four posts which at least partially consist of AI slop and coins which are not yours. That is not the purpose of the thread, (EDIT: Now 5 posts as you are still posting...) (EDIT Again: Now 6!!!)
@johnny9434:
Most, if not all of us that post here weekly do so in a single post. Your multiple posts clog this up & push other posters out of view. You’re certainly welcome to post your coins here, but it would be great (& courteous) if you did so in one post. Thanks in advance for understanding.
Back from my fishing trip. Caught a cold the next to the last day and had to leave one day early ... missing one more day of big fat rainbows and dinner with a coin friend that night.
This was one of the NEWP's from the ANA ... a couple of free hand shots with coffee this morning, using my "salmon" cribbage board as a tilt prop ...
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Then some cropped shots from a previous appearance
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And finally, one of those big fat rainbows. Normally they barely come out of the water because I am a hook and release guy but this one caught the fly on the back of his tongue so I had to get him out and extract before putting him back in the water where he swam off.
I told my oldest Son I really should have done a video on this one as he was opening and closing his mount, as if to say, "Put me back, put me back!"
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“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
@Copperindian said: @johnny9434:
Most, if not all of us that post here weekly do so in a single post. Your multiple posts clog this up & push other posters out of view. You’re certainly welcome to post your coins here, but it would be great (& courteous) if you did so in one post. Thanks in advance for understanding.
Damn millennials🤣
I have a sales guy and I always know it’s him when he text me because it comes in at 14 messages one right after another ping, ping, ding, bing, ding, ding, ping, ding, bing, dinging bing.
I’m like can’t you put one cohesive thought together before you hit the submit button.
@Copperindian said: @johnny9434:
Most, if not all of us that post here weekly do so in a single post. Your multiple posts clog this up & push other posters out of view. You’re certainly welcome to post your coins here, but it would be great (& courteous) if you did so in one post. Thanks in advance for understanding.
Damn millennials🤣
I have a sales guy and I always know it’s him when he text me because it comes in at 14 messages one right after another ping, ping, ding, bing, ding, ding, ping, ding, bing, dinging bing.
I’m like can’t you put one cohesive thought together before you hit the submit button.
Hahaha! Chris
And here, in this case, with this poster, it seems to be a post count thing as well.
Just grab whatever you can find on the interweb and throw it up.
Which makes a lot of us want to throw up.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
@lermish said: @johnny9434 what the hell man. That is four posts which at least partially consist of AI slop and coins which are not yours. That is not the purpose of the thread, (EDIT: Now 5 posts as you are still posting...) (EDIT Again: Now 6!!!)
PLEASE stop spamming the thread.
... I have to agree. @johnny9434 I enjoy your participation here, but the volume of posts, AI-generated material, and coins that aren't yours is starting to overwhelm the thread. An occasional outside reference that adds to a discussion is fine (like the NE Colonial find), but the point of this thread has always been for members to share our own coins, finds, questions, and collecting experiences. Let's get it back in that direction.
Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;
I had a 1937 proof set graded recently. The coins are on their way back to me with delivery scheduled for Monday.
These two coins are the best of the five coins in the set.
The nickel has multicolored toning that does not show up very will in the TrueView photo.
The half has frosted devices and mirrored fields on both sides of the coin that, in hand, look better than they appear in the TrueView photo.
I also have this raw 1956 Type 2 half dollar that I recently acquired. Even though it has hairlines on the obverse fields I am sending it in to be graded because of the heavily frosted devices and the deeply mirrored fields (the contrast is exceptional).
Hitting banks this morning before closing. You just never know!
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I gone in a coin star 3 years ago, its a beautiful thing wtg
If you have the time and tenacity, it's still amazing what you will find out there!
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@USSID18 . Congrats. I found quite a bit of silver as a kid in the 60's & 70's. The only sad part about finding silver in today's commerce is that someone out there probably inherited some coins, didn't care what they were, so just spent them. It is their loss and your gain but I always feel a little sad for the collector who probably loved the coins. James
@seatedlib3991 said: @USSID18 . Congrats. I found quite a bit of silver as a kid in the 60's & 70's. The only sad part about finding silver in today's commerce is that someone out there probably inherited some coins, didn't care what they were, so just spent them. It is their loss and your gain but I always feel a little sad for the collector who probably loved the coins. James
Thanks!
If you found silver as a kid in the 60's and could actually keep it?..............you came from a well-to-do family... That's for sure!
I had a paper route as a kid in the mid 60's. On collection day, my pockets were so full of silver, my pants were falling down! There was no way in hell I could ever have kept all that silver as a kid! I had to pay for the papers. And what profit was left over, was just enough to buy some candy!
It's not that people inheriting the coin don't care, it's that they don't know or understand that it's silver.
There are bank tellers out there today (Oct 2026) that don't know what silver coins look like. I've actually educated a few and showed them silver dime, quarters and halves,.........they were shocked!! The expression on their faces were priceless!! 🤣 😉
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@USSID18 I had a conversation with a teller at my credit union this past week. She had 4 Morgan dollars in her drawer and gave them to a customer for $1 each. I explained to her what they were worth and she almost fainted. I showed an app that gives you the current value per Melt value too. She gave 4 morgan dollars away to a customer for $4 and she could not believe she did it. She asks me questions every week when i pick up new boxes of coins.
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@JWP said: @USSID18 I had a conversation with a teller at my credit union this past week. She had 4 Morgan dollars in her drawer and gave them to a customer for $1 each. I explained to her what they were worth and she almost fainted. I showed an app that gives you the current value per Melt value too. She gave 4 morgan dollars away to a customer for $4 and she could not believe she did it. She asks me questions every week when i pick up new boxes of coins.
@JWP said: @USSID18 I had a conversation with a teller at my credit union this past week. She had 4 Morgan dollars in her drawer and gave them to a customer for $1 each. I explained to her what they were worth and she almost fainted. I showed an app that gives you the current value per Melt value too. She gave 4 morgan dollars away to a customer for $4 and she could not believe she did it. She asks me questions every week when i pick up new boxes of coins.
See, I told you. I don't speak with forked tongue do I. 🤣 🤣 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
@USSID18 . Actually i did a paper route; (took it from 14 to 86 papers a day.) However the 4 years I spent selling Fuller Brush netted me the vast amount of my silver. Actually it is a misnomer to say "selling" Fuller Brush; you only got a commission when you delivered and got PAID! In one rare instance I had a very angry woman pay for a more than $34 dollar order in silver coin (circa 1976.) I spent months holding those coins seperate; i was waiting for whoever owned the huge Harley Chopper that was in the front yard to come looking for his coins, lol. James
Happy Saturday! I don't want to blow up the thread with pictures but the first thing I did upon waking up and pouring myself a cup was to go back to revisit the CACG images I just received yesterday evening.
It's 0900, do you know where your Saturday morning bank rolls and boxes are? I'm leaving to find out. See you later! 🤣 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
I started out with a nice cup of Haitian medium roast, but 2nd coffee is el-cheapo, "Breakfast Blend"
Admiring the new arrival this morning -- I think this is the fifth high relief Peace dollar I've owned over a collecting lifetime (late correction, it's the sixth!) though it's the only one I have now, and will presumably be the last. The picture makes much of that ding on her nose, but in hand you can barely detect it.
Black Eye Saturday today with an extra boost from the second espresso shot. This is getting to be a habit!
A couple months ago, members may recall I posted a “favorite” coin of mine without regard to its value, grade, etc. The coin was/is one I would be reluctant to sell until the end of my collecting days.
Today I’m posting another one of those (I believe all of us have such coins):
Per the label, it’s a Flying Eagle S-3 graded PCGS MS64 with a EEPS. I’ve always loved the unique toning & surfaces, not to mention the S-3 variety. The closeup pics show two of the three areas that determine the variety. There’s a 3rd that can be seen by the broken wing tip on the obverse.
But how much do I really like it? One is I bought it back after I sold it as part of a complete FE variety Registry set to a fellow FE collector. I had already replaced it with a MS65 EEPS + CAC. Two, I ended up selling that one when I retired a second Registry set it was part of. Even though it was a grade higher (& one of only 2 graded that high) + had a CAC bean, I wanted to keep today’s coin.
Well, I was all over this week, making a trip into Seattle to at o’dark on Tuesday to catch a flight to Dallas so I could drive to Sulphur Springs, TX, look at a Dairy Plant, and make a quick turnaround and get home Thursday night so I could rest up yesterday, as I am going to …
The last time I went and saw Rush live? It was 19 years ago, North of Sacramento in a little town called Marysville, with my oldest Son, who was 19 at the time, who, following in his Dad’s footsteps, was heading into the Navy a few weeks later. Guess who bought me the ticket and is taking me? Yep. My oldest Son.
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Okay, how about another time lapse story involving coins, but this one occurred over exactly one year.
For those of you who follow us crazy Capped Bust Nuts, you may know that the Capped Bust, Lettered Edge Half Dollar series has 450 Die Marriages, as identified by Overton numbers. For the truly insane and uninitiated, there are also 985 recognized Die States within those 450 Die Marriages (and I think we’re adding a few more confirmed this year). The first part is possibly important to the context of this story, the second part is totally superfluous.
Anyway, last year, on October 3rd, I sold a CBH to a forum member here, while we were together at the last PNNA show in Tukwilla. The coin was a very original 1831 O-106 in P50 with a bean. This is not a terribly difficult DM (we in the BHNC consider it as a r.3), but it becomes a little more challenging in higher grades, especially when nice. I did not have a second for this DM, but my friend had been looking for this date in the look and grade I had for quite a while, and since I had other 1831’s in higher grades, and because I knew he would appreciate the coin as much as anyone I could think of … I agreed to let him buy it if he liked it in-hand (he did, and he actually sold me a pretty cool coin the same day for $300. more, so he still went home with money in his pocket!).
John has also become a good friend over the last couple of years, and we text regularly about life, family and adventures in the PNW … and sometimes about his strange infatuation with Sasquatch! We even had breakfast together that morning.
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Fast forward to this year, on October 3rd no less , and I get a text message from another friend, who works for a well-known dealer on this board (and who is a newly minted “Associate Nut” in the BHNC), saying “Hey, look what I bought for inventory in Chicago this week!”, and sending video’s of two coins.
One of those coins? An 1831 O-106. In P58cac. With a very nice original skin look. Huh?!
Well, you know me. That’s a big Rut Roh for my wallet!
By Sunday we had agreed on a price and talked on the phone, and I told him about my travel plans and all so the coin didn’t show up on the wrong day, and we made a deal. Thankfully, even after Pittsburg, I had some pocket money for a birthday coin (my 62nd is later this month).
Also, in the meantime I had researched the coin and found where it had sold previously (back in 2017) for noticeably more (a different story for a different day), and I had (of course) decided that after looking at David’s video’s and former images, that I wanted to be her next caretaker.
I also felt like the universe was trying to tell me something. One year to the day, the same exact DM, in a grade that was more in line with my evolved (and entirely more expensive) tastes? Yep, the stars aligned. Write the check.
Even my sponsor in the BHNC, upon seeing my request for his former images of the coin, made a comment that caught a chuckle. When I first pulled it up I remembered her, and I thought, it looks more like a me coin coin than a you coin. Maybe you’re coming around?
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Without further ado … and with a big thank you to David (and Dan) … my new 1831 O-106 … which looks like it could have fell out the Newman-Green collection (although I will need to research that possibility a little more) with Sheridan Downey’s description from 2017;
“"Every bit as pretty as the photo suggests. Magnificent toning favors colors of a tropical sunset. Nice surfaces too. As I looked for hidden marks I found a familiar group of 3 dots on Liberty’s chest. They are the footprint of the mechanism used to eject freshly minted specie from the coining chamber. They are often seen on dates in the 1830’s."
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Coffee shot (really good Italian Roast)
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Keigwin shots (thanks Brother!)
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Sports fans will be hearing the National Anthem at stadiums throughout the country today. . .the 2012 Star-Spangled Banner Commem Proof Dollar seemed a fitting choice for this week's coffee with coins:
Good Morning Everybody!! Homecoming weekend for my Morgan State Bears and the festivities began early this morning... it's a "working weekend" for me... prep for my Clinical Microbiology Midterm Lab Practical... but a little break.
I'm pulling out pieces to get recertified next month...
Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;
Happy Saturday all. I had already 2 cup of coffee and played 2 hours tennis. Still very bummed about the Yankees - Oh well but still upset....
Anyway back to coins - here is an action shot of a 1836 inverted 3 half dime. Its really a beautiful coin but the TV isn't that great looking. So when you look at the TV, use a little creativity because its very nice. Not sure why I don't like the TV - thoughts why not?
Good morning, folks. Enjoying a cold brew coffee with this week's new purchases.
(1) 1916 Phillipines Twenty Centavos: just picked this up at a local show this morning. I don't know much about Philippines coinage, but as a fan of twenty cents pieces, I had to scoop it up. Apparently, it was minted at the San Francisco Mint.
(2) 1936 Lincoln Cent Satin Proof: bought from a forum member. It's details graded, but I did a die pairing study on these recently and had never owned one, so wanted one in hand for study and reference.
Superb collections are built more by omission than by addition.
@EastonCollection said:
Happy Saturday all. I had already 2 cup of coffee and played 2 hours tennis. Still very bummed about the Yankees - Oh well but still upset....
Anyway back to coins - here is an action shot of a 1836 inverted 3 half dime. Its really a beautiful coin but the TV isn't that great looking. So when you look at the TV, use a little creativity because its very nice. Not sure why I don't like the TV - thoughts why not?
@EastonCollection said:
Happy Saturday all. I had already 2 cup of coffee and played 2 hours tennis. Still very bummed about the Yankees - Oh well but still upset....
Anyway back to coins - here is an action shot of a 1836 inverted 3 half dime. Its really a beautiful coin but the TV isn't that great looking. So when you look at the TV, use a little creativity because its very nice. Not sure why I don't like the TV - thoughts why not?
Im a Sox fan and has even less to say 😉
My Dad was a Sox fan, so that meant I was to. Lived in Hobart, Indiana. I remember him taking me to a game in the late 60s. Good time.
A month or two ago, just on a whim, I purchased this Medal:
United States Louisiana Purchase/St. Louis Expo bronze Award Medal.
UNITED STATES. Louisiana Purchase/St. Louis International Exposition bronze award Medal. Issued 1904. Presented at the expo for the "silver" award (66mm x 66mm, 179.57 g, 12h). Square shape. By Adolph Alexander Weinman at the Philadelphia mint.
VNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOVIS VNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Columbia standing slightly right, wearing Phrygian cap and outstretching American flag over Native American maiden standing to right, removing flag with intricate bee design (representing industriousness); rising sun in background; all within central medallion; lis in each outer corner // Eagle, with head left and wings spread, standing facing on oak and laurel branches; below, rectangular cartouche decorated with scallop shell and inscribed • SILVER • MEDAL • / • LOVISIANA • PVRCHASE • / • EXPOSITION • in three lines; two inward-facing dolphins below; all within central medallion; outer decorations as obverse. Edge: Plain.
Hendershott 30-50. Mint State. Alluring brown-bronze surfaces.
Designed by famed German-born U.S. coinage engraver Adolph Alexander Weinman, this series of award medals displays the elegant artistry that would make appearances the following decade on the 'Mercury' dime and the 'Walking Liberty' half dollar. Issued in various shapes, the entire series (bronze, silver, gold, commemorative, and grand) were nominally named, as all of the award medals were struck in a new bronze alloy (initially referred to as 'government bronze'), and meant to convey the level of recognition for the recipient. The expo itself was held in St. Louis, Missouri, and had, as its backdrop, the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase to commemorate—a factor which prominently influenced many design aspects of the award medals.
Possible tip for coffee lovers : I buy French Roast whole beans, grind and then brew my own
Bought this last week and just got it in the mail, a whole 14 dollars for this 1976 Barbados matte uncirculated 5 dollar coin with original mintage of 250 pcs, NONE in sets and released through the Central Bank:
Love that Milled British (1830-1960) Well, just Love coins, period.
@Eldorado9 - I love your display of such really cool looking coins. Its a WOW in my books! What would compliment your Capped Bust quarter would be nicely toned Capped Bust dime and half dime. Just saying.... As you may already know, I am partial to Bust silver coinage.
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something British
this was found in the Netherlands in some ones cupboard. turds out to be the finest known to date
Good Morning Fellow Numismatists... spending time with the HT Tokens...
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@johnny9434 what the hell man. That is four posts which at least partially consist of AI slop and coins which are not yours. That is not the purpose of the thread, (EDIT: Now 5 posts as you are still posting...) (EDIT Again: Now 6!!!)
PLEASE stop spamming the thread.
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@johnny9434:
Most, if not all of us that post here weekly do so in a single post. Your multiple posts clog this up & push other posters out of view. You’re certainly welcome to post your coins here, but it would be great (& courteous) if you did so in one post. Thanks in advance for understanding.
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
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Good morning Saturday crew! Nice looking coins this morning.
Love the Fairmont Gold! @Copperindian
Cool find! @lermish
Back from my fishing trip. Caught a cold the next to the last day and had to leave one day early ... missing one more day of big fat rainbows and dinner with a coin friend that night.
This was one of the NEWP's from the ANA ... a couple of free hand shots with coffee this morning, using my "salmon" cribbage board as a tilt prop ...
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Then some cropped shots from a previous appearance
.
And finally, one of those big fat rainbows. Normally they barely come out of the water because I am a hook and release guy but this one caught the fly on the back of his tongue so I had to get him out and extract before putting him back in the water where he swam off.
I told my oldest Son I really should have done a video on this one as he was opening and closing his mount, as if to say, "Put me back, put me back!"
.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Damn millennials🤣
I have a sales guy and I always know it’s him when he text me because it comes in at 14 messages one right after another ping, ping, ding, bing, ding, ding, ping, ding, bing, dinging bing.
I’m like can’t you put one cohesive thought together before you hit the submit button.
Hahaha! Chris
And here, in this case, with this poster, it seems to be a post count thing as well.
Just grab whatever you can find on the interweb and throw it up.
Which makes a lot of us want to throw up.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
... I have to agree. @johnny9434 I enjoy your participation here, but the volume of posts, AI-generated material, and coins that aren't yours is starting to overwhelm the thread. An occasional outside reference that adds to a discussion is fine (like the NE Colonial find), but the point of this thread has always been for members to share our own coins, finds, questions, and collecting experiences. Let's get it back in that direction.
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Saturday morning contemplation: What to do with 9 privies, 7 found in yesterday's unboxing. I've set two aside for grading, 65 min, mebbe a 66...
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Morning to all.
I had a 1937 proof set graded recently. The coins are on their way back to me with delivery scheduled for Monday.
These two coins are the best of the five coins in the set.
The nickel has multicolored toning that does not show up very will in the TrueView photo.
The half has frosted devices and mirrored fields on both sides of the coin that, in hand, look better than they appear in the TrueView photo.
I also have this raw 1956 Type 2 half dollar that I recently acquired. Even though it has hairlines on the obverse fields I am sending it in to be graded because of the heavily frosted devices and the deeply mirrored fields (the contrast is exceptional).
Hitting banks this morning before closing. You just never know!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
I got in a coin star 3 years ago, its a beautiful thing wtg
If you have the time and tenacity, it's still amazing what you will find out there!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
It works
@USSID18 . Congrats. I found quite a bit of silver as a kid in the 60's & 70's. The only sad part about finding silver in today's commerce is that someone out there probably inherited some coins, didn't care what they were, so just spent them. It is their loss and your gain but I always feel a little sad for the collector who probably loved the coins. James
Thanks!
If you found silver as a kid in the 60's and could actually keep it?..............you came from a well-to-do family... That's for sure!
I had a paper route as a kid in the mid 60's. On collection day, my pockets were so full of silver, my pants were falling down! There was no way in hell I could ever have kept all that silver as a kid! I had to pay for the papers. And what profit was left over, was just enough to buy some candy!
It's not that people inheriting the coin don't care, it's that they don't know or understand that it's silver.
There are bank tellers out there today (Oct 2026) that don't know what silver coins look like. I've actually educated a few and showed them silver dime, quarters and halves,.........they were shocked!! The expression on their faces were priceless!! 🤣 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
@USSID18 I had a conversation with a teller at my credit union this past week. She had 4 Morgan dollars in her drawer and gave them to a customer for $1 each. I explained to her what they were worth and she almost fainted. I showed an app that gives you the current value per Melt value too. She gave 4 morgan dollars away to a customer for $4 and she could not believe she did it. She asks me questions every week when i pick up new boxes of coins.
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Tuition paid. Won't happen again 😉
See, I told you. I don't speak with forked tongue do I. 🤣 🤣 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
@USSID18 . Actually i did a paper route; (took it from 14 to 86 papers a day.) However the 4 years I spent selling Fuller Brush netted me the vast amount of my silver. Actually it is a misnomer to say "selling" Fuller Brush; you only got a commission when you delivered and got PAID! In one rare instance I had a very angry woman pay for a more than $34 dollar order in silver coin (circa 1976.) I spent months holding those coins seperate; i was waiting for whoever owned the huge Harley Chopper that was in the front yard to come looking for his coins, lol. James
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Happy Saturday! I don't want to blow up the thread with pictures but the first thing I did upon waking up and pouring myself a cup was to go back to revisit the CACG images I just received yesterday evening.
If anyone is interested, they can be viewed here -> https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1126129/best-of-the-mint-series-semiq-silver-proof-set-cacg-images-and-grades-lots-of-pictures
Overall, I am very happy with the picture quality and variety that CACG offers on top of many other positive attributes.
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It's 0900, do you know where your Saturday morning bank rolls and boxes are? I'm leaving to find out. See you later! 🤣 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
I started out with a nice cup of Haitian medium roast, but 2nd coffee is el-cheapo, "Breakfast Blend"
Admiring the new arrival this morning -- I think this is the fifth high relief Peace dollar I've owned over a collecting lifetime (late correction, it's the sixth!) though it's the only one I have now, and will presumably be the last. The picture makes much of that ding on her nose, but in hand you can barely detect it.
Goodmorning, crew.
Here are two medals with the same motif, made from prominent artists of the US Mint.
Victor David Brenner:
Charles Barber:
Happy Saturday, all. Stay caffeinated!
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not mine
Black Eye Saturday today with an extra boost from the second espresso shot. This is getting to be a habit!
A couple months ago, members may recall I posted a “favorite” coin of mine without regard to its value, grade, etc. The coin was/is one I would be reluctant to sell until the end of my collecting days.
Today I’m posting another one of those (I believe all of us have such coins):
Per the label, it’s a Flying Eagle S-3 graded PCGS MS64 with a EEPS. I’ve always loved the unique toning & surfaces, not to mention the S-3 variety. The closeup pics show two of the three areas that determine the variety. There’s a 3rd that can be seen by the broken wing tip on the obverse.
But how much do I really like it? One is I bought it back after I sold it as part of a complete FE variety Registry set to a fellow FE collector. I had already replaced it with a MS65 EEPS + CAC. Two, I ended up selling that one when I retired a second Registry set it was part of. Even though it was a grade higher (& one of only 2 graded that high) + had a CAC bean, I wanted to keep today’s coin.
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
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Good morning Saturday Morning Coin peep’s!!
Those really are great images @lermish Cool Certificates @JWP Good to see you @DCW I dig the 1921 @mirabela and what cool Flyer @Copperindian
Well, I was all over this week, making a trip into Seattle to at o’dark on Tuesday to catch a flight to Dallas so I could drive to Sulphur Springs, TX, look at a Dairy Plant, and make a quick turnaround and get home Thursday night so I could rest up yesterday, as I am going to …
The Rush concert in Seattle tonight!!
Calling @TomB
Oh, how cool will this be?!!
The last time I went and saw Rush live? It was 19 years ago, North of Sacramento in a little town called Marysville, with my oldest Son, who was 19 at the time, who, following in his Dad’s footsteps, was heading into the Navy a few weeks later. Guess who bought me the ticket and is taking me? Yep. My oldest Son.
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Okay, how about another time lapse story involving coins, but this one occurred over exactly one year.
For those of you who follow us crazy Capped Bust Nuts, you may know that the Capped Bust, Lettered Edge Half Dollar series has 450 Die Marriages, as identified by Overton numbers. For the truly insane and uninitiated, there are also 985 recognized Die States within those 450 Die Marriages (and I think we’re adding a few more confirmed this year). The first part is possibly important to the context of this story, the second part is totally superfluous.
Anyway, last year, on October 3rd, I sold a CBH to a forum member here, while we were together at the last PNNA show in Tukwilla. The coin was a very original 1831 O-106 in P50 with a bean. This is not a terribly difficult DM (we in the BHNC consider it as a r.3), but it becomes a little more challenging in higher grades, especially when nice. I did not have a second for this DM, but my friend had been looking for this date in the look and grade I had for quite a while, and since I had other 1831’s in higher grades, and because I knew he would appreciate the coin as much as anyone I could think of … I agreed to let him buy it if he liked it in-hand (he did, and he actually sold me a pretty cool coin the same day for $300. more, so he still went home with money in his pocket!).
John has also become a good friend over the last couple of years, and we text regularly about life, family and adventures in the PNW … and sometimes about his strange infatuation with Sasquatch! We even had breakfast together that morning.
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Fast forward to this year, on October 3rd no less
, and I get a text message from another friend, who works for a well-known dealer on this board (and who is a newly minted “Associate Nut” in the BHNC), saying “Hey, look what I bought for inventory in Chicago this week!”, and sending video’s of two coins.
One of those coins? An 1831 O-106. In P58cac. With a very nice original skin look. Huh?!
Well, you know me. That’s a big Rut Roh for my wallet!
By Sunday we had agreed on a price and talked on the phone, and I told him about my travel plans and all so the coin didn’t show up on the wrong day, and we made a deal. Thankfully, even after Pittsburg, I had some pocket money for a birthday coin (my 62nd is later this month).
Also, in the meantime I had researched the coin and found where it had sold previously (back in 2017) for noticeably more (a different story for a different day), and I had (of course) decided that after looking at David’s video’s and former images, that I wanted to be her next caretaker.
I also felt like the universe was trying to tell me something. One year to the day, the same exact DM, in a grade that was more in line with my evolved (and entirely more expensive) tastes? Yep, the stars aligned. Write the check.
Even my sponsor in the BHNC, upon seeing my request for his former images of the coin, made a comment that caught a chuckle. When I first pulled it up I remembered her, and I thought, it looks more like a me coin coin than a you coin. Maybe you’re coming around?
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Without further ado … and with a big thank you to David (and Dan) … my new 1831 O-106 … which looks like it could have fell out the Newman-Green collection (although I will need to research that possibility a little more) with Sheridan Downey’s description from 2017;
“"Every bit as pretty as the photo suggests. Magnificent toning favors colors of a tropical sunset. Nice surfaces too. As I looked for hidden marks I found a familiar group of 3 dots on Liberty’s chest. They are the footprint of the mechanism used to eject freshly minted specie from the coining chamber. They are often seen on dates in the 1830’s."
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Coffee shot (really good Italian Roast)
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Keigwin shots (thanks Brother!)
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Great coin & a great tale Todd! Beauteous
Ken
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
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Indy Eagles
Gold Rush
Bust Caps
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Early Walkers
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Sports fans will be hearing the National Anthem at stadiums throughout the country today. . .the 2012 Star-Spangled Banner Commem Proof Dollar seemed a fitting choice for this week's coffee with coins:
Enjoy your weekend.
Good Morning Everybody!! Homecoming weekend for my Morgan State Bears and the festivities began early this morning... it's a "working weekend" for me... prep for my Clinical Microbiology Midterm Lab Practical... but a little break.
I'm pulling out pieces to get recertified next month...
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Happy Saturday all. I had already 2 cup of coffee and played 2 hours tennis. Still very bummed about the Yankees - Oh well but still upset....
Anyway back to coins - here is an action shot of a 1836 inverted 3 half dime. Its really a beautiful coin but the TV isn't that great looking. So when you look at the TV, use a little creativity because its very nice. Not sure why I don't like the TV - thoughts why not?
Good morning, folks. Enjoying a cold brew coffee with this week's new purchases.
(1) 1916 Phillipines Twenty Centavos: just picked this up at a local show this morning. I don't know much about Philippines coinage, but as a fan of twenty cents pieces, I had to scoop it up. Apparently, it was minted at the San Francisco Mint.
(2) 1936 Lincoln Cent Satin Proof: bought from a forum member. It's details graded, but I did a die pairing study on these recently and had never owned one, so wanted one in hand for study and reference.
Superb collections are built more by omission than by addition.
Im a Sox fan and has even less to say 😉
@EastonCollection: my thought would be the coin in hand doesn’t even closely resemble the tv!
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
PCGS Registry: Screaming Eagles
Copperindian
Copperindian II
Indy Eagles
Gold Rush
Bust Caps
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
Nickelodeon
Early Walkers
Successful transactions: Eagle Eye, redraider, winesteven, renomedphys, splitaces, oreville, ajaan, Cent1225, onlyroosies, justindan, blitzdude, DesertMoon, johnnyb, Heubschgold, SunshineRareCoins, ParadimeCoins, ndeagles, Southern_Knights, pcgsregistrycollector, BruceS
My Dad was a Sox fan, so that meant I was to. Lived in Hobart, Indiana. I remember him taking me to a game in the late 60s. Good time.
A month or two ago, just on a whim, I purchased this Medal:
United States Louisiana Purchase/St. Louis Expo bronze Award Medal.
UNITED STATES. Louisiana Purchase/St. Louis International Exposition bronze award Medal. Issued 1904. Presented at the expo for the "silver" award (66mm x 66mm, 179.57 g, 12h). Square shape. By Adolph Alexander Weinman at the Philadelphia mint.
VNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOVIS VNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Columbia standing slightly right, wearing Phrygian cap and outstretching American flag over Native American maiden standing to right, removing flag with intricate bee design (representing industriousness); rising sun in background; all within central medallion; lis in each outer corner // Eagle, with head left and wings spread, standing facing on oak and laurel branches; below, rectangular cartouche decorated with scallop shell and inscribed • SILVER • MEDAL • / • LOVISIANA • PVRCHASE • / • EXPOSITION • in three lines; two inward-facing dolphins below; all within central medallion; outer decorations as obverse. Edge: Plain.
Hendershott 30-50. Mint State. Alluring brown-bronze surfaces.
Designed by famed German-born U.S. coinage engraver Adolph Alexander Weinman, this series of award medals displays the elegant artistry that would make appearances the following decade on the 'Mercury' dime and the 'Walking Liberty' half dollar. Issued in various shapes, the entire series (bronze, silver, gold, commemorative, and grand) were nominally named, as all of the award medals were struck in a new bronze alloy (initially referred to as 'government bronze'), and meant to convey the level of recognition for the recipient. The expo itself was held in St. Louis, Missouri, and had, as its backdrop, the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase to commemorate—a factor which prominently influenced many design aspects of the award medals.
Now I'm addicted
Happy Sat Guys!
Still morning here. Hmm... which one should I keep?
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
The coffee ☕️ 😈
I can live without coins, but I can't live without coffee.
Superb collections are built more by omission than by addition.
Possible tip for coffee lovers : I buy French Roast whole beans, grind and then brew my own
Bought this last week and just got it in the mail, a whole 14 dollars for this 1976 Barbados matte uncirculated 5 dollar coin with original mintage of 250 pcs, NONE in sets and released through the Central Bank:
Well, just Love coins, period.
I got these 4 clad proof sets in the mail.
USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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@Eldorado9 - I love your display of such really cool looking coins. Its a WOW in my books! What would compliment your Capped Bust quarter would be nicely toned Capped Bust dime and half dime. Just saying.... As you may already know, I am partial to Bust silver coinage.
It’s Sunday, but I’m going to play! Latest. In the quest to finish MS63 set of Peace $ in older holders.
@P0CKETCHANGE
Love the Phillipines coinage, though I dont collect them. The obverse design is one of the best the US Mint put out.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Agreed!
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