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jtryka

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    Once Red-Hot....Now, They're Not: Fallen Stars

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    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!

    I'd like to show you guys more of my bust halves.

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    On 5/12/2023 at 6:59 PM, Henri Charriere said:

    @jtryka: If you'd've said the bust half featured above were made of copper, with an honest-to-goodness suggestion of patina/verdigris, I would not disagree. But odd positioning of letters on the reverse notwithstanding, I am not prepared to go the whole hog and throw "contemporary counterfeit" into the mix. No counterfeiter worthy of the title would lay claim to having produced this. I only regret I wasn't there when this rolled off the press.

    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.

    I'd like to show you guys more of my bust halves.

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    On 5/12/2023 at 6:59 PM, Henri Charriere said:

    @jtryka: If you'd've said the bust half featured above were made of copper, with an honest-to-goodness suggestion of patina/verdigris, I would not disagree. But odd positioning of letters on the reverse notwithstanding, I am not prepared to go the whole hog and throw "contemporary counterfeit" into the mix. No counterfeiter worthy of the title would lay claim to having produced this. I only regret I wasn't there when this rolled off the press.

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

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    I'd like to show you guys more of my bust halves.

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    @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!).

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    Post your most recent acquisition: US

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    On 5/7/2023 at 10:33 PM, Hoghead515 said:

    Sadly Im going to have to take this coin off my list. It got lost or stolen in the mail. First time Ive had any problems. I was very excited to. I really liked the looks of this one and was excited to put it in with the rest.  I got hold of the postal service and they are unable to locate it. I sent GC a message to see what I have to do to make an insurance claim. I got another from GC last week. Hopeit dont turn up missing. Hope someone dont start stealing the shipments knowing they are coins. 

    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!

    Junk silver finds - Could this abused Seated .25 be worth much?

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    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!