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Re: 3 lovely 1796 gold counterstruck coins, 2 silver 1/2 dollars and Ron Landis that I want to share
THANKS TO ZOIDS Way back machine with buttons that work, yielded me page 23 at scrapbook: https://web.archive.org/web/20161204044228/http://gmmnut.com/gmm/gmm23.html And on it with my film images mailed to Verne, are lost to time. What I said about my Concepts & ACTUALLY striking ALL Seventy two 14 Star 1796 proofs while… -
Re: Starting a large cent collection
Some additional books that may be helpful, or at least entertaining: Boka, JA/Provenance Gallery of 1794 Large Cents Breen, W (Borckardt, M, Ed.)/Walter Breen’s Encyclopedia of Early United States Large Cents, 1793 - 1814 Durst, SJ (Ed.)/Early American Coppers Anthology Logies, MA/Portraits of Liberty: The Large Cents of… -
Re: Two weeks of cleaning 1989 d penny
Many years ago, My son and I bought a bag of 100 Roman coins for $100, nothing special, but they were mostly terribly encrusted, dirty, etc. Since they were copper, Bronze, etc. I knew they would expand and contract with heat and cold. We prepared a bath of water on the stove, let them sit in boiling water and then scooped… -
Re: PLEASE HELP! Do coins actually have a grade? A GRADE - NOT A VALUE!
I could tear the OP apart, but all it would do would be to start another fight. Like it or not these factors lower or limit how high the grade can be. * strike * luster * number of surface marks * rub * damage beyond normal wear and tear The first two can keep a mark-free, straight from the dies coin from grading any… -
Re: Is the 'greying' of America good for numismatics?
I am not sure what packed shows loaded with YNs we are referring to. The Baltimore shows are generally considered larger in size, and there are definitely NOT hoards (bad pun) of YNs there, even in the dedicated YN playground/rest area. Greying, or aging in demographics is very important in the longer run and something… -
Re: Silver, Gold, Platinum Eagles, Buffalo Issues, Mints Intentions, Historical and current sales data f
post by 7over8 Sunday December 14, 2008 12:41 PM Coinboy - The bs about the POS system and vendor stuff has no bearing on what happened with the plat unc's. There are many assumptions, but a new point of sale system and vendor doesnt explain why orders exceeded actual stock by hundreds if now 1000+ coins for some options,… -
Re: What is your definition of MODERN?
<< <i> << <i>But this is exactly why 1964 is the line. Before this time the coins were made of silver and other "good metal" and people saved and collected it. After 1964 there was very little saved. >> I imagine the 1964 cutoff doesn't have a big effect for cent and nickel collectors, does it? >> Yes it does. Look at the… -
Re: Seated Dime help
Al, The 1890 falls between 6 & 7, so they call is a 6.5. I forgot to mention that fact . They only do halves, no quarter or another fraction BS. <<i see it as having some rub on the right arm, below the left breast and on the right leg with scattered>> "rub"? like cabinet friction, rub? or like wear rub? Thats alot of… -
Re: "The Current Price of Silver is Discordant. "
My last post as prompt (Copilot)- _...here’s the clean, structured answer you were reaching for — the one that ties your long‑running argument about structural silver demand to the new industrial domains that are about to explode. No templates needed here — this is conceptual, economic, and physical‑resource reasoning, not… -
Re: Swiss francs
<< <i>It seems almost cameo. Is there such a thing such as PL and DMPL when it comes to these coins? How long has the series been running. I know it is a long time but that's all I know. >> Firstly, specimens! As to cameo and PL or DMPL: Specimen strikes are most literally 'first strikes'. They were struck on burnished…
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