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I think it's a combination of adjustment marks and scratches/damage.

This one arrived today, I'd grade it a nice Fine. O-105, my third or fourth example I think.

Here is another that arrived this week, a die marriage I didn't have and a mild version of the halo toning that I like on Bust halves. This one is an O-109a graded VF-20 by ANACS.

I picked this one up recently, a nice circulated example, but when I got around to attributing it (with a big cup of coffee) I found it was a marriage I didn't have, O-145 (R-5).

Such sad and unexpected news, condolences to his family.

She's a beaut Clark! There is always interest among the die hard collectors for such interesting transitional states, but often they are not important enough for the TPGs or non-crazy collectors to care. I have an 1814 O-107 prime, and me and perhaps six other people on the planet even care about it!

Other examples I can recall are the 2001 Buffalo dollars, they sold out and were going for something like $300 a piece, but now they are back to earth. Same is true for the 1996 National Community Service silver dollars, the proofs never got too high, but I recall the uncs were up to about $300 at one point and now they are about $80. The 1998 RFK set with the matte proof silver Kennedy once went for more than $300, but I bought one last year at a coin show for $50! So, buy what you like and don't look back, but always remember if you miss the ride up in a bubble, there will likely be a better buying opportunity in the future!

A couple recent purchases, the first is a new die marriage for me, my 152nd, graded F-12 by NGC, a later die state with the die lump by the first S in States and some nice clashing by the Of on the reverse. The second is a quintuplicate of this marriage, but I'm a sucker for overdates!

1979 was a "mini default" where the Treasury failed to pay principal and interest on about $122 million in T-bills owned by individuals. The result was a 60 bps spike in rates but the holders were paid eventually.

Checked today at my local coin shop and this is not silver, not sure what the metal is, but I am now convinced it's a contemporary counterfeit.

1814, 1933, 1971, 1979 and arguably multiple times during the Civil War when payment in specie was suspended.

No different than any of the previous defaults...

These two arrived yesterday and one of them is a new die marriage for me.

These two arrived yesterday and one of them is a new die marriage for me!

@Henri Charriere I believe you may have completely missed the point of my post, so I'll just leave this here...

@Coinzrfun that is a good group of coins with a lot of history and good honest wear. Many of us have a lot of coins that might be higher grade, or rarer dates, but for many of us it's the history and stories that these coins tell that are so interesting. I am exceedingly impressed with your 1817/3, as that is one of my favorite overdates (another addition I have in this series!). And to illustrate the range of what many of us collect, here's one I picked up maybe 5 or 10 years ago, I doubt I paid more than a double sawbuck for it, but it had a hole and a lot of honest wear that could tell many stories. Perhaps someone wore this on a string around their neck as they fled their home during the Civil War, or maybe they used it as a keychain, it might even be a contemporary counterfeit based on the odd positioning of the A and M on the reverse! Right now it hangs up on the key rack on the door by my garage, but who knows where it will be when it turns 200 (that will be in 10 years in case you can't read the date!).

just saw an article today about the significant increase in robberies from the postal service this year, in some cases armed robberies of mail carriers!

Always a great report, and happy to see we have similar tastes in wine!

Picked these two up at Central States last Friday.

Several of us were commenting on this yesterday.

Picked this one up today, an upgrade to my Saint set.

Always the obverse. I would guess this graded AU-50.

I like it.

Picked up these two at CSNS show today.

It's always fun to find seated stuff as junk silver (this was quite common in the 1980 silver boom) but not so much any more. My local dealer is a friend so he likes to save interesting stuff for me, knowing I hoard Canadian, he saves the 80% for me which occasionally includes a Victoria piece, and on junk US he divides up the Barbers with me and another good customer, but a few weeks ago he sold me two seated dime (common and worn like yours) and an 1853 arrows and rays in about the same grade as yours. Fun to get such coins for melt!