Newps- one for the Barber half Dansco and one for the Seated 10c love token set!
lordmarcovan
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Gonna crack this baby out and stick 'er in my VG-F Dansco set. How'd I do, d'you reckon? Redbook VG8 is 60 bucks and I got this PCGS VG10 for 69.88 + $3.00 S&H. It's got a few marks but nothing out of the ordinary for the grade, I suppose. Plus it looks pretty nice and crusty. I've got a nice VG10 '96-S but otherwise the earlier portion of that album is fairly empty. This will be my second slab crackout- the other was one of those coins where you have to wonder why anyone slabbed it- it was just a 1911-S in ANACS VG8.
I've been working on pics of my Barber half set and am almost done. I'll post 'em when I finish.
The following is a nice addition to my date set of Seated Liberty dime love tokens. It's a date I think I already had, but I am trying to upgrade to as many "scenic" or "pictorial" pieces as I can get my hands on, rather than just the usual initials and monograms. Of course the scenics go for stronger money- at $46.97 plus $1.49 S&H, this one was stretching my max bid a tad. But competition is fiercer for scenics/pictorials.
I'm also working on pics of the love token set. I used to have a thread about it, but all the pictures died when my image server went belly-up, and I've not updated it in some time. I've made a lot of additions, though, so I'll be updating that soon.
I'll probably do a light diperoo or soft cloth polish on this piece to rid it of some of the smudginess, but not so much that I remove the darker, "crustier" aspects of the host coin's obverse toning. (Playing coin doctor is not quite as deadly a sin on love tokens, 'cause after all, they've already been "messed with" when they got engraved, right?)
I've been working on pics of my Barber half set and am almost done. I'll post 'em when I finish.
The following is a nice addition to my date set of Seated Liberty dime love tokens. It's a date I think I already had, but I am trying to upgrade to as many "scenic" or "pictorial" pieces as I can get my hands on, rather than just the usual initials and monograms. Of course the scenics go for stronger money- at $46.97 plus $1.49 S&H, this one was stretching my max bid a tad. But competition is fiercer for scenics/pictorials.
I'm also working on pics of the love token set. I used to have a thread about it, but all the pictures died when my image server went belly-up, and I've not updated it in some time. I've made a lot of additions, though, so I'll be updating that soon.
I'll probably do a light diperoo or soft cloth polish on this piece to rid it of some of the smudginess, but not so much that I remove the darker, "crustier" aspects of the host coin's obverse toning. (Playing coin doctor is not quite as deadly a sin on love tokens, 'cause after all, they've already been "messed with" when they got engraved, right?)
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ok, no silver polish.
<< <i>Both are fine looking but the love token is really cool, bamboo I think, I wonder what the significance is? >>
Yes, definitely bamboo. With a little birdie flying by it.
One has to wonder the significance of a lot of these love token designs. I really am enjoying that collection because on the one hand, it's a coin collection (the date set of Seated dimes, minus those pesky rare mintmarks!) but on the other hand, they're all one of a kind mini-masterpieces, no two alike, and all done by hand, some of them with no doubt painstaking precision. That's a nearly dead art nowadays. I wonder if people had jewelers do these, or if engravers set up at fairs and such.
I know coin jewelry was made at fairs 'cause while out metal detecting in a local park, I dug a fragment of a Standing Liberty Quarter that was an obvious scrap left over when somebody made "cutout" jewelry- it was the triangular piece that had been cut from between the eagle's wings.
Best of all, these love tokens are affordable. It's only for the really nice ones that I've had to pay anywhere near fifty bucks. Most pieces can be had under twenty bucks. Only once have I crossed the $100 threshold for one. (That was for an 1880 dime which is of course a key date- but right after I bought it I cherrypicked another 1880 from a bulk lot, for less than eight bucks!)
I know what you mean about the lower graded slabs.
I've been noticing a spate of VG8 and even G4 regular common date stuff in PC holders on eBay lately.
The POPs even show a PO1 1901 P Quarter! They must have thought they saw an S on it.
LordM,
Very solid 96-O Half. Its perfect for the grade
and would have fit in perfectly in my original
Bookshelf Album. Nice to see the full reverse
motto.
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Would fit very nicely in my set....
Very cool coins, thanks for sharing.
Not trying to be critical, but to me, your Barber half pics look just very slightly out of focus. I seem to have the same problem when shooting my own coins and wonder if any one has a suggestion? Definitely happens with slabbed coins much more that with raw coins.
<< <i>Not trying to be critical, but to me, your Barber half pics look just very slightly out of focus. I seem to have the same problem when shooting my own coins and wonder if any one has a suggestion? Definitely happens with slabbed coins much more that with raw coins. >>
Monstavet- not my pictures- they're the seller's. I assure you that if I had been the one holding the camera, the pictures would have been far more wretched, and the focus REALLY bad.
I only paid for these last night, so they aren't in hand yet.
Fortunately I am able to use my scanner for these Barbers. Scanners suck at coins with luster or colorful toning (even nice scanners like the one I have), but on circulated, grey silver with a bit of a "skin", it does pretty well. If I remember, I'll update this later with some scans of that piece.
Taxmad- cool love token! If it had been "LS" instead of "MS", it would be MY wife's initials! Watch out for these- they can get habit forming! I've got a gold dollar with "LM" on it, which fits my "Lord Marcovan" handle nicely. It's one of the pieces on my Holey Gold Hat. Actually it was as a byproduct of my holey coin collecting that I discovered love tokens- I bought some holey Seated dimes that just happened to have exquisite engraving on the backs, and I always said I'd try a date set of love token dimes one day. About two years ago, I set out on that quest, and it's pretty far along, now. I'm expanding into the Barber dime love tokens, too.
As fate would have it, that "Bamboo Birdie" dime I posted above is destined to not be mine for very long. As soon as it gets here, it is going off to a new owner. Andy (aka "engraved"), who was an underbidder on it, made me an offer I couldn't refuse. He'll be helping me fill five empty slots in my set, plus sending me a pictorial with a horse on it, so I'm semi-reluctantly going to pass the piece in the OP on to him. I just couldn't pass up his tempting trade.
Thanks for the comments, all.