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Re: Holiday Today - Confederate Memorial Day (In GA)
<< <i> << <i> << <i>War for southern independence? ha. War of southern arrogance is what I call it. Those traitor rebels got what they deserved. Smacked down good and hard. (can't resist needling those old southern romantics). >> Yeah it was great that the only way the north could insure a victory for a centralized… -
My Great Southern cherry pick (will it grade?)
Many years ago when I was first starting to buy and sell coins, I remember selling a coin like this. I later discovered it was a mint error called a retained cud, and I have been trying to find another ever since. I finally found one being sold by great southern, and just got it today. It was not listed as such, which is… -
GNA coin show (and debut of the slab caddy)
I spent all day yesterday in Dalton, GA, for the GNA meeting and had the best coin collecting time of my life! Aside from my 4 newps, two from Doug Winter and two from board member "Dahlonega", I had a blast sitting at a table with Doug and "Dahlonega", looking at all the gold coins they had with them, quite a haul, but a… -
Local value of small silver coins in southern states - 1842
March 31, 1842 R.M. Patterson to Walter Forward, Sec Treasury Regarding suggestion of Charles E. Wetherill to stop coinage of half dollars and dollars. Excerpt: You are aware that a great proportion of the silver coinage, both here (Philadelphia) and New Orleans, is now in dimes and half dimes, for which the demand is very… -
Re: What causes this kind of toning?
Straight from their listing - Great Southern Coins is a Southern Louisiana coin wholesaler. We are new to eBay, but it is our intent to offer high quality coins and exceptional honest service...As all coin dealers know, coin grading is subjective. To the best of our ability, we will give honest opinions on grading. I would… -
Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION:
<< <i> << <i> << <i>You could come to the southern side of gold and put together a Southern Gold Type Set by mint in high grade. Set would include 9 Dahlonega Type, 8 Charlotte Type, and 7 New Orleans Type for a very cool 24 coin set. There are several low mintage one year types that would make for a very challenging, yet… -
Re: After getting an XF-40 grade on his 55-D $5, what should RYK do next? Pres Review cancelled!
Would my recent experience justify the purchase of a Consolation Coin™? I have just the coin in mind. Sell it to me at XF greysheet bid FatMan, you know that any circulated Dahlonega coin that does not trade wholesale 20% over bid is not worth even looking at. How about if you go out and create your own grading system for… -
Re: Hansen watch.
The Bearded Goddess This is a really neat upgrade. It is something about these old, odd half dollars that I have always found fascinating. The D. L. Hansen Collections is no ways close in comparison to some of the collectors that specialize in the Capped Bust series. I personally think the premier collector presently in… -
Re: A FC Productions, 1845O L.H.E. Analysis, BAB sponsored research. (log into heritage first)
<< <i>Great post! Two things caught my eye... "Winter estimates that there are 85-95 1845-O half eagles extant." "PCGS price guide VF-400 EF-675 AU-5500 60-11000 61-14000 62-19000 63-29000" Even if Winter's estimate is off and we double the amount of coins, this would still seem like a low number of available coins, making… -
Re: New Dahlonega Quarter Eagle
I have found southern gold at times across Europe; Italy, Germany, Luxembourg. I have bought several New Orleans gold coins, Carson City, less Charlotte but still several. Seems to indicate that southern gold was at one time included with larger denominations in paying US debt in the mid to late 1800's. Just a hypothesis…
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