Burks

My goal is to simply get back into collecting. I've bought MAYBE 5 coins over the past three years. Granted I'm getting married this year, I still want to get back into it. I'm content with nice, cheap world coins.

Imagining a coin properly is not easy. When I started to photograph my coins, I literally took hundreds of useless pictures. In fact, I haven't done it in so long I probably forgot how! If you are thinking about using a scanner, well it works........but the coins always look flat and bland. You don't get any luster, hardly any color on toned coins, and the images just are boring. Heck, some cell phones take darn good photos now! I bet a cheap-o $200 camera could do a great job.

I love proof Ike's! I have probably 16-17 of the brown box Ike's I've bought over the years. Most around $5-$8 each! I did splurge on one that was nearly all blue toned reverse, $10

The coin in hand is much nicer than the photos. The lines are much less noticeable, it looks to be an old cleaning to me. Details are definitely there. AU details to me. Very heavy coin to for the size. Thick. Nice work on the edge as well. I'm happy!

Purchased this off eBay today: 1861 Willhelm Koenig 1 Thaler (my first Thaler) Not my pics BTW I do recognize it may be cleaned (probably is seeing the marks) but the quality is there IMO. Picked it up for less than melt, picked it up for less than 1982 Krause VF price. So yeah, I think I did ok. Anything less than melt is a good buy to me! Especially if it is a cool coin.

Burks, Silver, 1901-present, 1941 Mercury Dime My linkBurks, Silver, 1901-present, 1941 Mercury Dime

Burks, Copper/Bronze, 1901-present, 1936B Switzerland 2 Rappen KM#4 Burks, Copper/Bronze, 1901-present, 1936B Switzerland 2 Rappen KM#4,

I got mine today! Awesome stuff!

$5 I can spend....... Or some coins I will probably never see at the local shop........ Coins please!

Bolivia : 50 Centavos - 1901/0 overdate Finally came today. Nice coin, reverse has some luster left. I'd call it a VF. Obverse is a little too worn for the XF designation. Still a nice looking overdate for $10.

Long overdue update. Received the 1965 Hungary 2 Filler I purchased off eBay. Key date. I'd call it a solid XF, chance at maybe AU50 if the graders had an awesome night the day before. Not bad for less than half the catalog value from 7 years ago! It's a neat coin. Bought it 1/2 because it's a cool looking coin, 1/2 because it's a "key date" even though it's modern. *shrugs* I'm still a poor college student except now I have a friggin house to pay for! Sort of neat looking through my old thread at coins I have completely forgotten about. Most of my coin/notes are stuck away in moving boxes still from almost a year ago. Might have to start digging through those in three weeks during my break......and actually hit up that coin shop. Got to love the 50% off world coin bin(s)! At least they better still have it. Before they were selling silver coins at or below melt....

Congrats to SMS and Corina! Again Blackhawk, awesome give away and coins.

Why not, put my name in too.

I know I've shown this one before but it is still one of my favorites: Paid like $10 for it or something close.

Auction winnings came in today. Just as described!

1810 ½ Batzen, Canton of Vaud Something about the reverse is just stunning to me. The type for the writing is unusual (to me on a coin) but very attractive. Nice pick ups.

Received my prizes from Blackhawk today. And what was one of the extras? An awesome 1923A German 500M!!! Check out the die breaks on that bad boy! This is, by far, the best looking 500M I've ever seen. Ignore the yellow.....all my Reveal bulbs are burnt out. It's blast white.

Great looking nuke dime.

Sure thing! When and where? Well I didn't exactly "buy" these quarters but they were part of my payment for working this weekend. 1964-D Washington 1956-P Washington Someone paid with silver quarters so my boss, knowing I like coins, gave me two on top of my pay. I was pleased!

Picked up only my second half dollar commemorative today. 1986-S Statue Of Liberty - $6

My only buys from the Wooster Coin Club show today: 1924 P - Peace Dollar - "Junk" silver bin buy. Best out of it. 1957 Proof Lincoln Cent

Picked these up today at my favorite shop: 1937 Chile 5 Centavo - UNC is lovely! 1945-D Philippines 20 Centavos - Just a nice AU piece. 1901 Great Britain 1/2 Penny - Some nice original copper color. Will post this in the grade guessing section. 1835 Canada 1/2 Penny Token - I have no information on this. I have a post over on CU asking about it (topic in the token/medal area here also). No pictures. Left my lenses at my apartment (again). Will be up tomorrow night.

Nice $20. What's going on with the area in front of her nose?

From the MSNS show today:

I have sooooo many pictures to take. I've been seriously slacking!