Big Nub numismatics

I don't know about face value, but definitely a lot less near the common date stuff in avg condition. if you find someone needing it just to fill a hole int heir collection, than you would have something to sell.

Not interested, but this sure is a beautiful coin! You have a great eye.

I wonder how well that person grades them, or if they even do. They might start the day ready to begin, accurately grading the SAEs but by the end i would think they would just go on auto-pilot going through them as fast as possible.

Maybe they assumed that people would start circulating coins again after the civil war, and that many people weren't needed. Either way I can't imagine them coming home to their wives and kids so early.

Lol. My thing is how many five-star reviews the seller has.

It's going to be a waste of time. Being that you found these in a bag should give you how common these are, even in higher grades. For it to be worth it, your coins would have to have absolutely no detracting marks, and full, bright luster. It has some stains, and many bag marks, scratches, and the like. Just worth silver content.

Why not put all of them on there? Since people are just buying the slabs, make the slab bigger, better, with more pretty pictures on it.

I agree. Silver that old shouldn't look like it came out of 2020 proof set. Coins with that kind of luster sitting for 130 years have toning 9/10 times. The details on the coin do not seem to be there. A weak strike for US proof? I don't think so. In terms of showing its authenticity, weight doesn't do too much, silver is cheap and a different metal can be used if no in the exact specifications thickness and diameter wise. The weight you have on your scale wouldn't even make sense, as your scale should have rounded up to 6.3 grams being it was minted after '73.

Cleaning on gold coins is usually done with an acid rather than whizzing because of how soft it is. The areas on the coin where it was treated will have a pink hue to it. Gold coins usually don't need to be cleaned though, gold is a noble metal, and these coins don't corrode. To me it doesn't look cleaned, no pink spotted, but if it was cleaned 20-30 years after it was initially made and then circulated a bit, I wouldn't be able to tell. For capped bust coins, look for the bead on the necklace and the hair above the face for the obverse, and the Eagles wing tips and neck above the shield for the reverse. The bead lacks some definition, and some hair locks are blending together, as are the wings on the reverse. I'd give it a mid range VF-25/30 The gold coin also looks to be a VF-30

I think angle 2 would be the best. Either way machine learning is only as good as it's sources. If a human has to manually check everything after the computer, does the computer really need to be there. Maybe they should just stick to it being a "verifying" device used to double check actual graders rather than a single opinion, especially as a computer can only grade technically, and can't make a strong enough market grade.

Welcome, can't wait to see more from you Kay! This is a nice find. To me this doesn't look like a FS-101, not enough/serious doubling in the "TR" of trust, but there appears to be actual doubling. CONECA would be your best bet for getting something new attributed. For future reference on varieties, doubling, etc... try the variety vista website. It has tons of photos and helps a lot with attribution.

Being the only incuse coin design in the United States, the Gold Indian head design is the hardest to grade of all series, as well as the hardest to tell if it's actually real or fake. Any of us, regardless of how experienced, will likely not be able to give an accurate grade for it, but from the pictures it looks like an excellent piece. The ten dollar piece shows some wear, although not extreme, and discoloration, as well as serious nicks to the focal points of the design. I would put it as a 50-53.

The Lincoln cent had plenty of good striking years. In terms of design, I think the wheat cent is the most iconic (older generations still tend to cling on to these even if not collecting) of the 20th century, but in terms of best, I have no idea why Mercury dime or buffalo nickel failed to make it to even be voted on for number one. SLQ is a great design, but with serious striking flaws, it's hard to find a nice example with all of the details present.

That's just low. I know several dealers who use greysheet to sell too, not just to buy. Greysheet has become so common amongst collectors that they have begun using it as a price guide for themselves without regard that it's supposed to be for wholesale. This forces actual dealers to buy and sell even lower. Collectors "investing" in a coin might see this as a win in the short term (they spend less money so naturally the "investment" is better) but long term if they continue it will drive the prices of all coins down.

I was surprised to see a (usually) large coin show near me still went on. It usually consists of 100-120 tables and dealers, but this year was an almost flop. Apparently many dealers weren't going based on risk, and collectors didn't come because they didn't think it was still taking place. I passed hoping for things to calm down in the following months.

A niche topic, but I can't wait to get my hands on it! Should be a fun read.

I still commonly find ASE in MS-70 with detracting marks. These "MS-70" coins are just to grab foolish collectors into buying them. $25-$30 will be their price within the year's end or after the initial hype is gone.

Yes, not a true double die, but if one is to keep an example of this, might as well be one with a little variety, if only some machine doubling.

Could be better. I've seen some graded PL-76 with an additional 1982 half dollar overdate.

Definitely from the re-plating. Depending on how it was done, it could be any anomalous material that was on the coin before, or it may have been just a terrible job with some extra metal.

Well that's true for regrading and crackouts, but if the technology becomes as accurate as it can be, many people might trust the grading companies to finally be accurate. Copper coins would probably be last to be accurate, if ever at all.

The beauty of numismatics. Of this "insufficiently_thoughtful people", of which the New Orleans mint had plenty of, are there any records that we can find that support that this is the real cause. Such records like a greater number of different die pairings compared to the San Francisco and Philadelphia mints?

It seems they started with aligning the pairs, but ultimately decided, or had to, mix up die pairings. The most confusing bit on the die pairings is the way they go from 1-5, or 6-10 based on which mint you look at, to numbers far greater than anything near them.

Barber's first wife died in 1899. It might not account for much, but he may have hyper-focused on his work even to the smallest details (leaves, stems, and the wreath) to take his mind off it.

From the "December 8-December 30th Letters received by the Mint headquarters" it says around the last one-two weeks of December.