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A star note dollar and a 1951 D Lincoln cent.
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Well not fitting in my plan for the year but I did want a better one.
1934 Texas Half Dollar
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1949 d lincoln cent and a 1960 d large date cent
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The main things I'm concerned for is George already set up the categories and did match up drawings. Kind of figure he's got enough on his plate. Next the main thing is it could open flood gates. Side note Scotto will be competing. He just gets a pass on the first round.
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jtryka: group 4: 1858 Flying Eagle Cent struck in copper nickel
Might be a little late now George already has the match ups listed.
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Scott wait until George or Art answers. But it does seem like it would count. Even most U.S. cents were not pure copper. From the U.S. Mint's web site:
"The composition was pure copper from 1793 to 1837.
From 1837 to 1857, the cent was made of bronze (95 percent copper, and five percent tin and zinc).
From 1857, the cent was 88 percent copper and 12 percent nickel, giving the coin a whitish appearance.
The cent was again bronze (95 percent copper, and five percent tin and zinc) from 1864 to 1962."
Even the coin Art cited was bronze.
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Mark Stilson, copper, Group 1: Ancient & Medievel: XX-1500AD
Constantius II AE3, 337-361 A.D. Antioch OBVERSE: DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG. diademed head right. REVERSE: VOT/XX/MVLT/XXX within wreath Roman Votive vows for 20 years and repeated for 30 years 15mm - 1.7 grams
Edited: moved to zinc lincolns to base metals.
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Mark Stilson, silver, Group 1: Ancient & Medievel: XX-1500AD,
KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm ‘Amphipolis’ mint. Struck under Kassander, circa 316-315 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; axe in left field, monogram below throne. Price 139; Troxell, Studies, Group L, 10
Alexander the great Tetradracm
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 3: 1701-1800
1782 8 reale salvaged from the wreck of the Spanish Brigantine El Cazador. The ship set sail January 11, 1784 from Vera Cruz, Mexico going to New Orleans. It was carrying 450,000 silver reales. It sunk with out a trace. The money was meant to redeem Spanish paper money by King Carlos III in Spanish owned Louisiana. Spain was facing a financial crisis at the time the ship sank and King Carlos IV of Spain was forced to sell Louisiana to the French in 1800. Three years later Emperor Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States (~1,000,000 square miles) for fifteen million dollars, about 3 cents per acre. The sinking of the ship and it contents changed the face of the U.S. On August 2, 1993 Captain Jerry Murphy of the fishing vessel "Mistake" found the wreck.
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 4: 1801-1900
1878 Morgan dollar short nock parallel arrow feathers, 7 tail feather, VAM 142, Doubled 878 142 II/I 22 - B2b (Doubled 878) (179) I-3 R-4 LIBERTY doubled shifted left. Date doubled at tops of 878 and right side of 7. All stars slightly doubled. P,R,U,U, and M doubled.
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 7: Exonumia
2000 Grateful Dead Steal your face skull logo numbered Limited edition.
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 4: 1801-1900
1876 Quarter Dollar
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 6: NCLT
Born Hiram Ulysses Grant and later swapped his first and middle name to Ulysses Hiram Grant when he applied for West Point. But a mistake was made and it was entered as Ulysses S. Grant. So even through the years and on the coin it was never corrected.
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 5: 1901-Present
1915 D Barber Quarter
Mark Stilson, silver, Group 4: 1801-1900
1883 Hawaiian Dollar
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Not sure on this one if it should be in this category. Since it was a circulating private issue coin. Or even the right metal group. If not I will delete and move it.
Mark Stilson, copper, nickel, zinc, tin, Group 7: Exonumia
Feuchtwanger composition one cent ht-268 (61) 1837 was the start of what is known as "The Hard Times" or "Panic of 1837" Lewis Feuchtwanger started minting his own coins due to a shortage of small change during this time. They actually were used as money during that time.
Mark Stilson, zinc/copper, Group 8: Special Coins
1998 Lincoln cent Broadstrike and plating bubbles error.
Mark Stilson, zinc/copper, Group 8: Special Coins
2001 Lincoln cent off center strike.
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Not sure on this one. It is two separate metals. So if wrong I can change it.
Mark Stilson, silver/brass, Group 6: NCLT
2000 Isle of Man Prime Meridian 1 Crown commemorative. The brass used on reverse was taking from original prime meridian which passed through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in southeast London, United Kingdom. The Prime Meridian in Greenwich is now stainless steel.
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1968 Bahamas five cent piece.
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This is really a great thread and great coins.
We are getting close to dates I don't think we are going to be able to say this came from x year, but from a range of years. Any more thoughts on it? Maybe wait on 10 coins from a ten year date range till we move on?
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I keep looking and thinking I'm going to bid against some one here.
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Made a trip to Las Vegas and picked up a few rolled cents and a Grateful Dead Steal Your Face chip on Freemont street.
Riviera Casino in Vegas rolled cent. Double sided
Madame Tussauds in Vegas rolled cent
Madame Tussauds in Vegas rolled cent
Grateful Dead Steal Your Face chip from Freemont street.
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Got a Belgium 50 centimes and a 1956 D wheat cent in change in Las Vegas.
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The only store near me that had a coinstar a little away from the cash register closed a while back. Now all of them are right next to it. Never had any luck with those.
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1948 S Lincoln cent
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2011 and finally got a 2010 state parks quarter. Grand Canyon.
Forgot Republic of Honduras 2005 50 centavos. That I noticed when he handed it to me but figured what the hey.
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Okay, right after looking at goals for the year. I drop by the coin shop and the have this.
1883 Hawaiian Dollar
Oh well. Been wanting a Hawaiian for awhile.
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The bottle if full would be about a 1/4 ounce. Honestly a lot of work and I could have done better staying at home and just buy gold bullion. But I did still have fun and it was really nice up there. BTW how they do the split is kind of a double blind drawing. All the gold dust is split up evenly. Then larger pieces really can't be split up since that would drop value of any "pickers" (None of them very big) They are put in bottles numbered one through how many ever signed up for the dig. With the number one being the largest. Everyone who signed up name is put in a hat. Then one of the folks with the mine picks a name from the hat. (None of the people who work there are in on the dig.) When your name is called you come up and pick a number from a hat. The number you pick is the number vial you get. They had a side deal one of the vendors added of $10 worth of presidential dollars. I won that. Neat part of it was getting a mix of Philadelphia minted dollars.
Looking at the garnet there are fractures but it appears 2 maybe 3 stones about 4 - 5 carat cut could come out of each. The one on the right looks like a walnut. Two halves which should be able to split. And it does look like good crystal structure. Especially the one on the right.
The black tourmaline I think was just one someone dropped. They have a salted "gem mine" on the premise. To me its not native tourmaline. Most gem mines buy stuff from over seas and just add it to dirt for you to sift it. The garnets I know are native. When you work the trommel at the bottom the rocks get separated and tumble out the side to a wheel barrow you have catching it. I was keeping an eye on the stuff coming out and saw those.
BTW send me your address and you will have some Denver's coming your way.
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Not mail and not coins. I am late posting this. Some gold though. We went to North Carolina again a couple weeks back. Did one of the gold digs. The place we stayed at they do a group thing. Everybody who signs up uses the equipment they have ( high banker, trommel This year we were on the yellow trommel shown in the second link. (Not us) Any ways you work 4 hours each day Saturday and Sunday. They had two shifts. Then the gold is split up between all who worked. When we weren't working on the dig, We also got some dirt delivered to the bank of the creek and used a sluice box to go through it. All the gold we got from the sluice was ours, not split up. It may not look like much work but these pictures show people stopped. It is actually pretty hard work. I was shoveling about 4 front end loaders worth of dirt each 4 hour shift. Plus we went through 2 front end loaders worth of dirt sluicing. Almost had one of the guys on the trommel pass out. One woman on a high banker fell over from heat. Did not pass out but close. This is the place just north of the Bechtler Gold Coin Mint.
Since I goof around with rocks I was keeping an eye out for them. Everyone else is just looking for gold. Figured while I'm there might as well.
Anyways here is my "treasure"
From top left to right. Almandine Garnet, black tourmaline, another Almandine Garnet. Bottom our gold we got. North Carolina gold is normally 22 carat. We did not get it assayed or anything. Most of the gold in North Carolina is small stuff. Ground up over the rocks in the streams.
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1941, 1944 S, and 1948 wheat cents. Two different stores.
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It would be neat on a commemorative. A Damascus or other base metal blend may not be too expensive. A few folds could get a pattern. But they would have to treat the coin after minting to bring out the grain. Any design would have to be very bold and simple.
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The 4$ one from Wildwinds made it.
Constantius II AE3, 337-361 A.D. Antioch OBVERSE: DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG. diademed head right. REVERSE: VOT/XX/MVLT/XXX within wreath. Roman Votive vows for 20 years and repeated for 30 years 15mm - 1.7 grams
I am going to be changing series for awhile. I may pick up the occasional ancient to modern coin. Just won't be a big purchase. But I'm going to try for a century set. The "How far back can we go" thread first made me think about it. But I'm going to try to get at least one "nice" coin for each century starting at 500 bc and going forward. Kind of a extended box of 20+. I have a feeling the middle section is going to be tough. (This is not the 300 ad coin. That is yet to be purchased.)
Never did find much but at least I found some. Now zip..
"Street" morgans - would like help on knowing the grade
in My New Purchases
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My guess would be vf 35's. The hair lines are on the weak side, but there is feathers showing on the eagles breast. Almost a split grade. One thing you don't see on a fake is the mark on the cheek of the 1880 S The 1884 has me puzzled. The marks on and below the eagles tail feathers seem strange. Since the lines on the tail feathers don't appear to be on the branch and that is higher. The same way with the lines in the field when they cross the wreath seem odd. Is it toning or damage? Damage is expected some what on a coin that grade. But because if damage it might drop over all grade some. In other words a low vf. Or be considered details.
BTW looks like it might be a doubled large mint S vam. And the 1884 may be a far date. This does not add a premium but check for doubling on the eye. Possibly
1884-P VAM-16 Alligator Eye, Far Date, Doubled 8