0
  • entries
    158
  • comments
    0
  • views
    1,435

Entries in this journal

The Obverse is the Reverse and Vice Versa

On the Arkansas Centennial Half It's interesting the things you learn when you obtain a new coin. I just picked up the Robinson/Arkansas Half Dollar on Ebay and during my research, learned that the portrait side, depicting Arkansas Senator Joseph Robinson, is the reverse since the side with the Arkansas Coat of Arms (obverse) has the date, denomination, and "United States of America". This also holds true of the primary Arkansas Half which depicts a Native American and Liberty on its revers
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

RE: Rare Label Collecting?

And parallels with the Comic Book Bust. MV Coins struck a nerve when he mentioned the proliferation of different labels that are being produced for various editions of the SAE. i was heavily into comic book collecting from the early 90's until around 2005 and I recall the craziness that ensued when all the companies started producing variant covers for their products. Content was the same in every case but the covers HAD to be collected or your set was not complete. One book in particula
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

The 50% is Good Enough Set Is Done!!

Well almost save for a minor glitch (I Hope). Hi All, Picked up a very nice NGC MS65 Gettysburg Half Dollar today in a straight trade with my local coin dealer. He got a slabbed 09-S VDB and I got the Gettysburg Half. BTW, the 09-S VDB has already been removed from my NGC registry. I saw this beauty back in December during an earlier trip to the dealership and I couldn't get it out of my mind. It has beautiful blast white surfaces with just a hint of toning along the edge. Those beaut
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

My Worst Purchase Pays Off

At least a little. Hi All, Hope your Holiday Season was wonderful and the trip back to work yesterday was tolerable. Some of you may recall a journal entry from last year where I mentioned my worst numismatic purchase was a silver ingot poured from a larger ingot from the Nuestra Senora De Atocha. At the time, I offered to sell it for 50 bucks (sort of as a joke although I would have sold if anybody asked). It just sold this past weekend for 200.00 on EbaY. I had placed it on Ebay
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

A Great 2011

And a Better 2012 Hi All, Hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the wonderful holiday season. I have to say, without a doubt, interacting with you all, hearing your opinions, your triumphs, and your disappointments has made 2011 one of the most enjoyable times in all the years I have been collecting coins. I am so happy to have found the Collector's Society and all the wonderful people that inhabit the Corner. This coming year, I will continue enjoying your company while adding a
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Delaware Half Arrives for Christmas

Part of the explosion of commemoratives in 1936. Hi All, I received my MS63 PCGS Delaware Half in the mail yesterday. The 1936 Delaware half was minted in a year that saw a huge number of other commemoratives minted. The full list is kind of staggering when you think about the relatively few different designs in the original series of commemoratives. Albany Arkansas (multi-years including 1936) Robinson/Arkansas Boone (multi-years including 1936) Bridgeport Cincinnati Clevel
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

My Beautiful Huegonot/Walloon Tercentenary Half Dollar

Is on its way!!! Hi All, Hope your all enjoying the Holiday Season and getting those special numismatic treasures that make your heart skip a beat. I participated in a Secret Santa exchange with some other board members and received a very nice 1943 Mexican silver Peso (.720 Fine) and a CU 1970 Mexican Peso bill from Jeff in Lansing MI. That was fun, gonna make sure I do that again next year. But on to the topic at hand. I was told today that my 1924 Huguenot Half, PCSG MS63, is in the
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

The Monroe Doctrine Commemorated

By Hollywood, of all places. Hi All, Recieved my 1923-S PCGS MS63 Monroe Doctrine Half Dollar in yesterdays mail. This is another addition to the 50% Is Good Enough set and is also another great example of first generation commemorative half boondoggery. Obverse shows the conjoined busts of President James Monroe, and Secretary of State, John Qunicy Adams. The reverse depicts two female forms representing North and South America. The Monroe Doctrine was promulgated President Monroe in
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Wow What A Shocker

Followup to my early posting about sample slabs. OMG, I have been following a 1963 Roosevelt Dime in a PCGS Sample Slab until it closed tonight and the final winning bid was 167.50. Yes, that is 167.50 for an ungraded, but clearly UNC dime jsut because it is in a sample slab. That is so cool!!! I know my similar slab with a 1964-D Roosevelt is probably not as valuable but if there is a growing market for sample slabs, I will put that slab on the market as soon as the heat comes to 1964s as
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Nice Pickup On Friday

One more closer to the halfway point Friends, I picked up a very nice MS64 1936 York County Maine half yesterday by selling some more old stock at my local coin shop. For those of you unfamiliar with the York County commemorative, it is a perfect representation of why the first series of commemorative coins failed so miserably (Special Interests). The York half commemorated the 300th anniversary of York County, southernmost county in Maine, and is also the second commemorative issued, duri
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

A little more about Slabs

The Sample Kind. Cemonice's posting about different generations of NGC slab styles is a great dovetail to an article that PCGS's Alan Canavan wrote titled "What You Need to Know About PCGS Sample Slabs". As a longtime owner of a PCGS sample slab, I have always wondered if their was any enhanced collecting interest over and above the value of the common date silver Roosevelt encased within the slab. Alan's article basically says that this is the time to seek out these sample slabs as there is
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

A Major Mint Set Mystery from the 1960's

Was it a trial or was it some kind of shenanigans. Friends, Found a very intersting article about the 1964, yes 1964, Special Mint Set on the Coin World site. Just goes to show you that this hobby, even after 45 years is still able to spring a surprise or two on a fairly regular basis. Read and enjoy. http://www.coinworld.com/articles/1964-sms-coins-are-enigmatic/ Later, Malcolm
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

My Favorite Set

and smallest to boot. I started collecting coins in 1968 when a bunch of my friends, who were Boy Scouts, started collecting to earn their merit badges. Suffice it to say, coin collecting soon captivated me and has had me in her iron (copper, silver, nickel, and gold) grip ever since. Sometime during the early 70's Coins magazine, I believe, offered a free 1967 Canadian Dollar with each new subscription. That was incentive enough for a young collector to quit buying newstands issues and
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

NGC Submission Delayed!!

I think there are too many SAEs in the pipeline. Hi All, I was thinking about submitting one last group of coins to NGC before the end of the year. But I think I'll wait until the glut of 25th Anniversary sets makes it through the pipeline. When I say last, I mean LAST, as I am down to a very small group of raw coins that seem to be worthy of the extra expense (vice simply selling them to convert into already graded coins). The lot will consist of some Silver Ikes, Some MS Mercury Dime
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

More Congressional Folly

Yet another commemorative that will never sell out. Folks, I just received my latest issue of NN and immediately latched onto an article about the latest commemorative coin series approved by Congress. This 3 coin set will honor the 75th Anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now I have visited the HOF and found it, and the surrounding town of Cooperstown, to be historical and fascinating. But I cannot fathom why anyone would even consider buying the HOF commemoratives unless they ar
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

My Worst Purchase Ever

Via QVC and the Nuestra Senora De Atocha Friends, I know we have all made purchases in the numismatic realm that we later regretted and I hope my sad tale makes you feel much better about your particular anguish. Sometime during the late 80's, while my collecting was mostly focused on NCLT foreign coins, I was watching those wonderful hucksters on QVC and became very interested when they started marketing an actual silver ingot from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha treasure ship. This ship ha
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Latest Update - Langbord Hoard of St. Gaudens Double Eagles

Are we closer to some kind of resolution and final disposition? I read an article from Coin World today concerning the latest (and final?) judicial proceeding concerning the Langbord Hoard. Decision was made on 10 November that basically affirms the jury decision from 20 July after considering additional information from both the government and the Langbords. Here's hoping the coins are preserved and the public is able to see them together at some point. Article can be found here: http:/
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Numismatics with a Military Slant

A Challenging collecting area. A representative from the Naval surface Warfare Center recently visited my Command to attend a conference. During a break, he stopped by my office to say Hi because we had spoken on the phone many times but had never actually met. At the end of our very nice face-to-face, he shook my hand while passing me the very attractive challenge coin pictured below. For those of you who do not know, A Challenge Coin is a small coin or medallion, bearing a military Unit'
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Pilgrim Tercentenary Half Dollar in the News

For those of us that are just plain worn out by the SAE 25th Anniversary story. I was reading Coin World and ran across an interesting article about a pair of lead die trials that have recently come to light from the estate of Cyrus Dallin, the coin's designer. These die trials were unknown to the numismatic community for over 90 years. Mr. Dallin was a colleague of St. Gaudens and did his work during the golden age of U.S. coin design. Here is a link to the article: http://www.coinworld.c
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Better Late Then Never

But still very late! Well I bought some milk and mint chip ice cream today and received 3 very shiny quarters in change. As is my habit, I flipped them over and saw 3 beautiful Gettysburg quarters. These are the first I've seen in circulation, in fact these are the first 2011 quarters I have seen outside of mint sets. Seems like change barely ciculates any more. I put it in my Whitman album. It joins 3 quarters from 2010. I guess I will need to get some quarter rolls from the bank and find th
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

I feel honored yet puzzled

by my coins appearance in the NGC Coin Explorer Well folks, I was googling myself this afternoon, not my real name but my beawchan handle, and I found numerous hits to include an entry for a coin I own in the new NGC Coin Explorer. The coin is a MS68RD 2006 SMS Lincoln Cent. The funny thing is that the coin is part of my 21st century set and it is paired with a 1909 (in the reverse picture slot) Lincoln to illustrate the difference in design from Brenner's original. I like that I am s
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Found a Buffalo During my Family Vacation

But it was not of the numismatic type. My family and I just returned from a wonderful four days on the island of Santa Catalina. As many of you may know, the island has a population of American Bison (Buffaloes) that date back to the filming of a movie called the "Vanishing Americans" based on a Zane Grey novel from 1925. Anyway, much of the filming of the movie was done in the "outback" of Santa Catalina Island due to its rugged terrain that mimicked the American west. 14 Bison were brough
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Heavily Chopped!

But still brimming with character and history. My final group of NGC coins are now on the way and I received the images today. This takes my Trade Dollar custom set to 20 coins with only my PCGS bound chopmarked US Trade Dollar to complete the set. Hopefully she'll return to the fold in November. As you can see in the picture this 1900 French Indochina Piastre De Commerce is heavily chopped and has obviously had an interesting life. I obtained her sometime in the 1980's. Please enjoy Lat
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

Langbord Hoard Offer

But the Government is paralyzed with hand wringing, naval gazing, and other such useless pursuits I read today that CAC has offered 20 million dollars for the 10 1933 Double Eagles. The article quoted a company principal stating they already have 7 solid offers to buy and they would be fine with hanging onto the other 3 for awhile. I think that is a very fair offer and will serve to forever protect these numismatic treasures. http://blog.davidlawrence.com/index.php/cac-offers-20-million-f
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0

A Little Holiday Surfing Fun

Because Halloween is So Awesome Hi All, I was doing some random websurfing this evening when I started focusing on coins that have some kind of Halloween related theme. After some dead ends, I happened upon a set of 5 coins issued by Tuvalu and minted in Perth called Heroes and Villains. They are each one ounce of pure silver and denominated at 1 Dollar. Two of the five coins,Jekyl/Hyde and Van Helsing/Dracula meet my criteria for Halloween themed. Here is a picture of the Van Hels
Mokiechan

Mokiechan

0
0