cool nice coin

Just on impulse, I picked up a 64 mint set - quite reasonably priced. This one was in a Capital plastics case (P & D with the cardboard insert). The P set, pictured here, has some interesting toning. The D set was toned to a much lesser degree. Funny thing this tarnish The Lincoln is, unfortunately, quite spotted. The Jefferson is not too great either. The others, particularly the Washington, look pretty nice, in my opinion.

Very nice purchases. I especially like a few of the Peace Dollars.

I have wanted one of these since my start in coin collecting. The incuse design is absolutely superb!

I love the Indian Head gold. Very nice coin.

This one was really more of an impulse buy than anything else. Still I am enamored with the wartime silver nickels.



It has some toning/tarnish that does not do much for the eye appeal. But, it does have a pretty good strike with some very decent step definition for the year (I think).



Still, I am a bit surprised at the grade - but toning should not influence the grade - right?



After watching the incredible Ken Burns documentary "The War", I have a renewed interest in putting together a US WWII type set. If you look through some price guides, one could assemble such a set in F-VF at a very reasonable price and an MS set would not be out of sight. Further, if you don't mind some holes, the set could go into unmarked Dansco pages and make a nice album. Well, it's just a thought at this point.

I thought in the same vernacular after watching his breakout series "The Civil War" back in the early 1990's, I pondered of the acquisition of a nice contemporary to that time selection of choice coinage. I had merely accomplished the cupro-nickel cent, and the three cent piece in nickel from 1865, though yet I will endeavour to acquire the 2¢ coin and the 5¢ piece in nickel as per my desire. Only very recently I have I occasioned the "greenbacks" from that era, a neat little type set of $5, $10 and the $20 from 1862.

The interesting thing about the WWII series is knowing participants in that, unlike the abstract of the Civil War. I can ask of my own Grandmother her experiences of that time, the memory of the attack on Pearl Harbour, the rationing, the steel cents of 1943 etc. One of my neighbours was a military governor in Bavaria right after the war.

Is that DDoouubblling on MMOONNTICELLO or just reflection??

A new addition to the Peace Dollar set.

Wonderful Jefferson and a very nice Peace $ as well.

My second purchase of 2008. This is just part of my large silver collection and was a bit of an impulse acquisition, but the pic barely does it justice.

Nice dollar. If I recall the 35 is one of the harder coins in that series.

Nice I like it.

Picked up this little beauty today - plowing away at the Lincoln set.

Nice cent. Do you have a minimum grade you're after? I hear the 31-D (or a similar date/mint) is rarer in high grades than the 31-S.

Nope, no minimum grade - just a nice look for the price.

Not the prettiest example, but it is welcome in my Peace Dollar collection...

Argh.. I need that one.

Another Lincoln for the album (forgot I needed this one).

The last year of "real" US Silver Dollars and another one for the Dansco album.

I continue to make progress on the Peace Dansco - *gosh* I like these old, well-travelled, hunks of silver - what a great design!

Are you thinking of finding the big varieties?

Noooooooooooooo I'm thinking of the 5 more I need and one of those the 28 that will definitely be the umm 'toughest'

Hey man, don't belittle my favorite series! This is the series that got me into collecting and I'm close to completing a respectable set on a college student budget. The 28 and 34S are the only two I'm missing (besides either a 34D or 35S... can't remember, but they're not tough)!!!

With this well-travelled 34-S, the Dansco has but three holes....slowly but surely

Picked up three needed Lincoln proofs: 1975, 1994 and the 1999 below. These modern proof Lincolns sure cameo nicely!

Picked up this 26-D for the Dansco.