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Re: The Enigmatic 1840-o No Drapery Quarter
I always figured the 1840-o ND to be the most common "O" mint quarter in the entire series. Trying to find a nice AU that hasn't been processed in a chemical bath is another matter, though.… (View Post)4 -
Re: Age Of The Ridiculously Large Mint Mark
Back in the late 1990s, a group of raw coins in a leather pouch walked into my local B&M shop in the Finger Lakes region. It came back from California in the 1890s. Everything in it was "S&q… (View Post)5 -
Re: Age Of The Ridiculously Large Mint Mark
Nice run of "S" quarters! I'm not sure what led the San Francisco mint to switch to a much smaller mintmark in 1866, but it was a dramatic change. Here is my run of 1855-1865 "S" … (View Post)21 -
Re: Seated Liberty Half Dollars - Hardest to find top 10 date/ mm?
I stopped collecting Seated halves a few years back, outside of a quick acquisition of an 1855-S in XF45 and an 1851-P in AU58 when they were suddenly sitting in front of my eyes. The halves look les… (View Post)6 -
Re: Greatest/Rarest Finds In The Wild?
A friend I had in the late 1990s brought me a little Sucrets box filled with inherited coins. Inside it were 1852 and 1857 quarter eagles in really nice AU58 and an 1874-P Seated 25c is wholesome, or… (View Post)5
