Mohawk

I know you're planning to retire from active collecting once you hit your 70th birthday, but I hope you stick around here after that. You often crack me up on here!!!!

Love your fish, Hog and James!! And your frog as well, Hog. I love those little frogs.....but I'm not going to provide Hisako with another murder victim!!! I was going to get a picture of Hisako for you guys.......but his light bar crapped the bed tonight!! Now, we've gotta figure out how to replace it.....it's built into the tank lid......this should be fun!

You are so welcome Hog!!! I'm glad you are enjoying it!! And thank you to you and everyone else who has participated, as well! I also love silver coins....no matter how many other coins I own, my favorite remains the silver Roman denarius, even with Quintus being as tickled by orichalcum as he is!! I'd love to see this thread get pinned....I hope people are sharing their silver treasures here years from now!!

Yep. And that name is SlickCoins. Or 107-year-old Hector John Waynee.

ColonialCoins...I know we haven't talked before, but I wanted to say I'm really sorry to hear that you're having a life-changing kind of health problem. That's just awful. I hope that your diagnosis is something that you can find a way to live with which would also allow for a reasonably good quality of life, in the long run at least if not right away. I hope that you're feeling better soon.

I recently ordered two Roman coins from dealers overseas, one in Sweden and one in Germany. They both arrived within a couple of weeks. It's definitely slower than before COVID still, but it seems to be improving....at least, in my experience.

I'd say Jonathan nailed this one. The other possibility is that they were plated in a science class and someone spent them afterward and they stayed in circulation for a while. It's fairly common in high school and college chemistry classes to zinc plate Lincoln Cents as part of their lessons. I did this in my chemistry class in my junior year of high school, and a lot of those coins ended up back in circulation after the novelty of a "silver" colored cent wore off.

Great tank James!!! I love it!! You and I actually have the same kind of heater......though I doubt your fish hit it with their heads and knock it off the wall like my Hisako does. I also love your plants....they're very beautiful. I'm considering live plants myself, actually. I do have a marimo moss ball currently (with small betta fish head sized dents in it from Hisako's raucous "playing"), so I'm kind of wondering how live plants will go with him......well, it can't go worse than the Mystery Snails did!

Mystery Snails are deeply cool.....I wish ours had done better. However, when we were told that they could live with bettas, they didn't factor in Hisako's breed. He's a Plakat, which is the breed that they actually use to fight in Thailand and Cambodia. So he's literally the Siamese Fighting Fish. As such, he is massively aggressive and territorial...even more so than other betta breeds. We've had other bettas before, but Hisako is our very first Plakat. We started with two Mystery Snails. Hisako was fine for a few days and then he flipped like a switch was thrown....he killed and ate one snail and started punting Barry (the one we named after Chappell) around with his head like a soccer player!! We got Barry out of there, but it was too late....Hisako had already damaged him too much. So, lessons learned: do NOT keep Mystery Snails with Plakat Bettas and no more roommates for Hisako whatsoever!!

But it is a DMPL....a deeply, massively polished loser.

That is just ridiculous......those guys on the TV are just awful. That said though, I kind of miss Barry Chappell.......he was just as bad as the rest of them, but he was a lunatic!!! At least he was entertaining with his screaming and yelling and nicotine gum and Monster energy drink addictions. I never bought anything from him and never would, but he did give my fiancée and I hours of laughter. We actually named a Mystery Snail after Chappell......but our betta fish Hisako killed him !! Maybe Hisako bought one of Barry's overpriced Proof Set specials back in the day.....

Woods nailed it......plating blisters. They're pretty common on zinc Lincolns, especially the ones from the 1980s

I skip anything with SlickCoins name on it, unless the thread has evolved into something better, such as the museum discussion going on there now. Thanks to Jonathan for getting that one to a better place!!

I'm with Jonathan on this one, Bob. Once we've reached a point where it's clear that someone has a psychological problem, I disengage. I cannot help such a person, nor am I qualified to. Like you, I'll correct anything that is said that could be interpreted as being true by future newbies coming to the forum, but beyond that I'm done. If I cannot help them with their issues, I feel I should disengage.

And again......

You like that Orichalcum, don't you Quintus? I love it!!! I'll have to find more excuses to have Orichalcum show up around here.......maybe a "For the Love of Orichalcum" thread...........

I agree with everything Jonathan said.....especially when he said we need weights and diameters. Those are vitally important when attributing ancients. Get those posted up and we'll see what we can do. ~Tom

Well......it's been a while, but maybe I can help. What I did when I was submitting these coins was to mark Uncirculated Set Issue on the submission form where you mark varieties and errors for those services, but without checking the box for Variety Plus or Error service. When I did this, I wasn't charged for the attribution and sure enough, Uncirculated Set Issue was on the label. I hope that this helps you!!! Best of Luck! ~Tom

Well said Bsshog!!! All I can say is....

You definitely got Barber-y with your latest pickups, Bill!! My fiancée likes Barbers, so I have a soft spot for them as well. I like your dime the best of the group. Thanks for sharing those!!

Looks like a nice one, Bill!!

I see you're still bringing the awesome with your journal, Don!!! What a fascinating read!!! And, like Coinbuf, I've seen the price increases on things, too, but it really hasn't affected what I collect yet.......Faustina the Younger coinage is almost like the 1980's baseball cards of ancients.....her coins are very common, even after over 1,800 years (at least her lifetime issues. Her posthumous series can be a bit of a different story), so I'm not anticipating much of the craziness impacting me much. But like Coinbuf said.....I've wondered if some of this has been a bubble, too. If I didn't collect what I do and for the reasons I do, I'd probably be thinking about backing off more, too. As far as full circle for me, it'll likely never happen. I started with U.S. and Canadian coins when I was 8 and I've bounced around a lot from that time, taking on many different coins and coin series. But once Faustina came into my life, she was it and will remain so. Collecting her coins, along with the occasional ancient of someone else, is all I actively pursue now. When I lost my mom and stepmom in 2020, I was knocked around a lot by that and I stopped collecting for quite a while.....but when I came back to coins (and to the boards), it was Faustina I came back to. She's the other lady in my life, though Candice is okay sharing me with her . But it was really cool to read about your full circle experience!! Thank you for sharing that and your newest addition with us as always!! ~Tom

Looks like some fine copper to me, LemE, though a lot younger than what I'm used to !! Thanks for sharing those!

James.....you should see my workspace.....it's HORRIBLE!! Things have disappeared in it. I actually lost a dupondius in it the other day!!!! Thankfully, I found it. Your post makes me feel better about the wreck I see fit to call a workspace

Ron, I'm seeing a lot of sour grapes here. I do not think you honestly wanted opinions. You wanted opinions that agreed with yours......the title of your post, when combined with the content you've uploaded in this thread since, even screams that.......I mean "Possible record 1886 Type1 Brown Indian Head Cent"....what else can be inferred from the combination of that title and responses? I think we were supposed to fawn all over your coin and tell you that you did indeed have some kind of record breaking coin. But we didn't. And when we didn't, you didn't like it and tried to sell it to us. When Mark said that we weren't the ones who would be grading your coins, he was telling the truth. I don't work for NGC and neither does Mark nor Roger. We don't have a dog in this fight. I responded with the desire to honestly help you as best I could. Everyone else did as well. From where I'm sitting, someone expecting an MS 67 BN or better on that first Indian Cent was in for a disappointment. Based on the pics you provided, I think Mark was generous with his MS 66. I was thinking MS 65 BN. And that is the honest truth. That's what I would grade that coin. A nice coin, but not a record breaker in any sense of the word. Of course, I don't have the coin in hand, but based on your images, that's what I saw. We see this kind of thing here a lot. People come here and think they have some kind of big rarity or record high grade coin......and most of the time, they do not. This is that kind of situation. It is what it is. But your situation is a little different than the usual we see. You still have a good coin. It's no record breaker, but it's still nice to someone who likes Indian Cents. Its value at MS 65 BN still makes it worth grading. If I'm correct on the grade, $750 is a decent value for a coin. If Mark is correct at MS 66 BN, then it's a $1500 coin per NGC Coin Explorer, so it's even better......Unless you already paid MS 67 money for it. Then things aren't so good. Grading it wouldn't be a waste of money, provided you don't already have MS 67 money into it.. I hope Mark is correct with that MS 66 grade for you, I honestly do. I wish you luck with your submission.