I recently came across a small hoard of half pennies in junk boxes at several dealers, and on top of what my dad and I found diggin in the dirt, I now have about a dozen of them! All the other ones I've purchased, and none except the cartwheel in the center ever cost over $5. I really like these low grade coins, there is just something that screams I AM HISTORY about them. So lets see what everyone has!?

Cool coins!
I agree, they do shout "I AM HISTORY!", although I still don't like slugs, and one semi-decent example to actually see the details is a nice thing too.
Cool finds though!

Eh, I like perfect coins and all, but I am a history buff, and love coins that really did serve a purpose during the timeframe in which they were used. As for nice examples, if you can see it, on the right side is my Connecticut cent (not the one I found recently) that has Vf-Xf details, it's really dark, but in pretty darn nice shape. It's the one with the broken planchet. And best of all, it was a $0.25 bin find!

Perfect coins=pain in the derriere. Expensive, hard to store and paranoid. All you do is sit and stare at the photos. (Why am I sprouting things that sound like hard-learned lessons, yet I've never been there? :/)
And I wasn't saying your collection was bad, I was saying in general, that's what I like to see in this type of collection. I love your little set. A perfect example for a nice, history-rich, cheap(!), set of coins that shows the wear 'n tear, but you have a coin or two to look at the details (Love that one in the middle! )
Junkbins are fun