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Oh my God that is hideous. What has that Liberty been smoking? She looks like she should go into rehab. And the hair! Member of the Addams family?

 

I thought the Sac was bad but not after seeing that.

I agree with you - it is truly a BEAUTIFUL coin and a terrible shame that it was, apparently, usurped by the SBA - but alas, not everyone shares our sense of asthetics *sigh*

...

I was hoo-hum about the SBA's design. (But hated the idea of a dollar coin.)  The more I am forced to look at Saccies, however, the better the SBA looks to me.

Have you seen, what has been referred to as, Gasparro's original intention for the small dollar coin?

Link to pics of that design (and a nice site as well)

Although I am not a big fan of the "retro" school of design, I think this would have been a nice coin and maybe, just maybe, would have paved the way... back

The SBA and SAC are real nice...as commemoratives.

A-1964 to date Kenndy Half dollar

B-2005 California State Quarter

C-1864 to 1873 2 cent piece

D-1986 to date Silver American Eagle

E-1948 to 1963 Franklin Half Dollar

F-1892 to 1893 Columbus Expo Half Dollar

G-1938 to date Jefferson nickel

H-

I-1965 to date Roosevelt dime

J-

K-1921 to 1964 Peace Dollar

L-2005 Bison Nickel

M-1959 to date Lincoln cent

N-1851 to 1873 three cent

O-2005 Marshall Commemorative dollar

P-1903 to 1935 Phillipines ten Centavos

Q-1951 Carver-Washington Commemerative Half Dollar

R-

S-Florida State Quarter

T-Providence, Rhode Island Tercentenary

Closes at midnight tonight (Eastern Time) - in about 10 minutes!

let's say it's XF in details, but dark.. if not flat out ugly? just round it down a few notches i suppose huh...  a net grade...  but how far down, and what determins that?

This is always a problem for me - net grading. If it is naturally dark from age (so called "original surface"), I say you certainly lose eye appeal points, but far less than if it were cleaned. Hypothetically, an EF40 details becomes maybe a VF30-35 - something like that. If it were an EF40 details, but obviously cleaned, I go VF20. Personal preference, of course.

A- 1964 to date Kenndy Half dollar

B- 2005 California State Quarter

C- 1864 to 1873 2 cent piece

D- 1986 to date Silver American Eagle

E-1948 to 1963 Franklin Half Dollar

F- 1892 to 1893 Columbus Expo Half Dollar

G- 1938 to date Jefferson nickel

H-

I- 1965 to date Roosevelt dime

J-

K- 1921 to 1964 Peace Dollar

L- 2005 Bison Nickel

M-1959 to date Lincoln cent

N-1851 to 1873 three cent

O- 2005 Marshall Commemorative dollar

P-1903 to 1935 Phillipines ten Centavos

Q-1951 Carver-Washington Commemerative Half Dollar

R-

S- Florida State Quarter

T-

Closes at midnight tonight (Eastern Time)

http://www.brent-krueger.com/cbholder.html

 

Not sure if they are the cheapest, but they are very good to buy from, no problems.

I have ordered from them and agree they are good. I have also had good results with -Brooklyn Gallery

A - Kennedy Half

B - California State Quarter

C - 64-73 2 cent piece

D - 86-Present Silver Eagle

E - Working on it

F - Columbus Expo 92-93

G - Jefferson Nickel

H -

I - 1793 Strawberry Leaf Large Cent

J - I'm throwing this one out there, it's a long-shot but.....Eisenhower Dollar?

K - Peace Dollar

L - 1793 Flowing Hair One Cent

M - Lincoln Penny

N -

O - 05 Marshall Commemorative

P -

Q-

R - Morgan Dollar

S - Florida State Quarter

T - Mercury Dime?

 

N is driving me crazy. I can't find anything close to it! I went through my Redbook today for about 2 hours at work working on this. It was pretty fun

12 correct!

A- 1964 to date Kenndy Half dollar

B- 2005 California State Quarter

C- 1864 to 1873 2 cent piece

D- 1986 to date Silver American Eagle

E-

F- 1892 to 1893 Columbus Expo Half Dollar

G- 1938 to date Jefferson nickel

H-

I- 1965 to date Roosevelt dime

J-

K- 1921 to 1964 Peace Dollar

L-

M-1959 to date Lincoln cent

N-1851 to 1873 three cent

O- 2005 Marshall Commemorative dollar

P-

Q-

R-

S- Florida State Quarter

T-

A new leader with 12 correct - nice!

Rotten Rodney SOARS to the front leading all entrants (he is the only entrant so far) with a blistering 10 correct! (well, really 9, but I'm sure he can fix that).

Closes tomorrow at midnight - anyone dare to challenge him?

absolutely impossible?

maybe? but there are no entries yet - and if nobody gets them all, then whomever is first with the most correct wins

These days it's all about profit... 

Not saying it's not about profit, but if the cent contained more than one cent of copper it would not circulate for long - the aluminum cents might have made good sense

All you have to do is identify the 20 coins from these pictures (in TWO posts). Prize for this contest will be an 1893 Columbian Exposition Half Dollar, courtesy of Ms T. Bunny (and the Brain Scramble contest that just ended).

Each picture is of a coin (not a token or medal) made at a US mint. For each picture, identify the coin and include a reasonably accurate date or date range for positive ID (nothing tricky going on with that).

First one to correctly identify all 20 coins wins. Let’s set a limit of 5 entries maximum per contestant. Contest closes at midnight, July 11, 2005. If nobody correctly identifies all 20 by that time, the first one to have correctly identified the most coins wins.

Remember, there are 20 pictures - A through T, in two posts.

Should be a piece-of-cake.

Here are the second TEN, K-T

piece-of-cake

All you have to do is identify the 20 coins from these pictures (in TWO posts). Prize for this contest will be an 1893 Columbian Exposition Half Dollar, courtesy of Ms T. Bunny (and the Brain Scramble contest that just ended).

Each picture is of a coin (not a token or medal) made at a US mint. For each picture, identify the coin and include a reasonably accurate date or date range for positive ID (nothing tricky going on with that).

First one to correctly identify all 20 coins wins. Let’s set a limit of 5 entries maximum per contestant. Contest closes at midnight, July 11, 2005. If nobody correctly identifies all 20 by that time, the first one to have correctly identified the most coins wins.

Remember, there are 20 pictures - A through T, in two posts.

Should be a piece-of-cake.

Here are the first TEN, A-J

Look at the next post for coins K-T

Good Luck to all!

That Texas Centennial is one wicked nice hunk of metal! Really splendid contours - gotta keep my eye out for one at a "comfortable" price.

i have an exact Kennedy,,,,as the 1st pic. Is there a premium on these? thx

Die cracks are not that rare and unless they gain some kind of notoriety with a catchy name, they do not tend to carry much of a premium when this minor. But they are interesting. By the way, I found another one of these neckline cracks

1. aaetllcmi METALLICA

2. afsassasr SASSAFRAS

3. tbummlsbue STUMBLEBUM

4. veeolenp ENVELOPE

5. olpaetne ANTELOPE

6. iersnnkatenf FRANKENSTEIN

7. cggreebaartp CARPETBAGGER

8. rrngytaca CARY GRANT

9. nrlcoeseial LESLIE CARON

10. nlotbtirbnoolhyb BILLYBOB THORNTON

11. prapescah SCRAP HEAP

12. stinaestih ANTITHESIS

13. lnkfrina FRANKLIN

14. lnrcaego LONGACRE

15. yenljlabe JELLY BEAN

16. gelhnaecl CHALLENGE

17. reagvea AVERAGE

18. ymebbrblure BUMBLEBERRY

19. tnamwleore WATERMELON

20. reykfa FREAKY

About 10 months ago I came accross this 1998 Kennedy half dollar with a thin die crack running along the neck line to the rim.

This weekend, I had the chance to search a few rolls of halves and found a few items worth keeping. A nice 1990-D and 1999-D turned up and I needed both of them. Also retired a 1968-D 40% silver.

Additionally, I found three more 1998-P halves with similar die cracks.

Guess that was a stress point on the dies for that year...kinda interesting.

1. aaetllcmi METALLICA

2. afsassasr SASSAFRAS

3. tbummlsbue STUMBLEBUM

4. veeolenp ENVELOPE

5. olpaetne ANTELOPE

6. iersnnkatenf FRANKENSTEIN

7. cggreebaartp CARPETBAGGER

8. rrngytaca CARY GRANT

9. nrlcoeseial SEAN COLLIER

10. nlotbtirbnoolhyb BILLYBOB THORNTON

11. prapescah SCRAP HEAP

12. stinaestih ANTITHESIS

13. lnkfrina FRANKLIN

14. lnrcaego LONGACRE

15. yenljlabe JELLY BEAN

16. gelhnaecl CHALLENGE

17. reagvea AVERAGE

18. ymebbrblure BUMBLEBERRY

19. tnamwleore WATERMELON

20. reykfa FREAKY

Received in circulation - This is the before pic (oh, what a story it might tell)

And this is after some mad electrolysis + dipping sessions...still ugly, and released back into the wild.

The attached file is what I use to print out insert labels for 2X2 flips like these...

Not sure if anyone needs this, but your welcome to it. Very low tech, just a simple Word file, but it comes in handy.

FlipInsertLabels.doc

1795 Halfpenny sized Conder Token. Yorkshire, York. Obverse: York Cathedral. Reverse: Clifford's Tower A.D. 1100 DH.63

Thanx for sharing. A beautiful collection of pieces (that I know nothing about). That first one..the York..WoW some *very* impressive detail on the architecture!

I'd better not see those in real life, I probably drool all over them....

Can anybode here explain why there's two different 3 cent pieces in that set? Were both circulating in those days?

Checking the Redbook...the issues overlapped (silver - 1851-1873, nickel - 1865-1889), but... check out the mintages...

For silver, from 1865-1873, less than 56,000 total.

For nickel, from 1865-1873, about 28 million total.

So, yeh, they kept making some of the silvers, but I guess they figured out nobody could find them since they are so small