Jason Abshier

As a machinist for 27 years myself did you really measure that coin with a micrometer ? 😂 people often get Dial or Digital calipers mixed up with Micrometer both are two different measuring tools it the metalworking machining world … 99% of the folks wouldn’t know how to read a true micrometer anyways … but it’s not really needed to determine 1982 small date 👍

@Sandon is right you gotta be careful buying that ancient coin stuff … lately Chinese notice there’s a market for for it in our coin collecting hobby face it the ancient stuff was pretty horribly made makes a counterfeiters’ job easy …

With my luck in life some times Kurt you might as well say I’ve gotten worse of the worse GRAVEL RASH ! Road rash I can probably live with but Gravel rash is a B**ch … I should of said it more like this if I win lottery 1) invest into properties and stocks (seek/Hire a reputable financial advisor what heck would I know about owning that much money anyways I’m just an average Joe 🤷‍♂️) 2) then keep building my collection as it is and sit back make money on my investments 3) then lastly buy high roller coins 👍

If I won I would spend it on more rarer type of high roller coins the best of the best (the stuff that’s out of our reach) … my collection I have now I would keep adding to it simply because numismatic collecting is in my blood, also invest a lot money into properties and so on … probably never work again

I don’t have 1/4 million mark in my collection I have few other notgeld coins in my collection at the safety box at the bank … but inflation in Germany was definitely an interesting read during and right after WW1 going through Weimar Republic years and depression years leading up to WW2 and rise of Hitler and Nazi idealism and holocaust , POW camps and so on …. Minor coinage has a lot bangs going for it during this time frame in Germany definitely keep a collector really busy trying to collect every mint and design made during that period is utterly impossible, I mean there’s so many pathways to go down to collect concentration camp coinage (holocaust coinage) , military issue coinage , POW camp coinage, notgeld coinage … but for Notgeld coinage I recommend Robert Lamb’s book on Notgeld , I also have Walter Funck’s catalog as well I have both in my numismatic book/catalog collection entirely devoted to Notgeld coinage … there’s also Peter Munzel’s catalog on notgeld coinage (I believe it’s 3 volume catalog , which I don’t own) …. but I find Roberts Lamb to be more better catalog for notgeld coinage compared to Funck’s catalog

Collecting becomes a passion of a lifelong obsession it’s not about money to most of us when we are putting our collections together is more for the love of the hobby… We been at it for long time devote a lot of our time studying a series of coins learn as much as we can… when I was growing up my grandfather , uncles and my father were collectors it was common for my grandfather to take me to coin shows and so on if it weren’t for my grandfather and uncles I probably would never been involved in coin collecting today like I am (although I do collect/invest way way more into coins than my grandfather or father ever did in their time) …. However my grandfather and my uncles mostly collected US coins as usual …. Now a days for last 10-13 years I’ve collected mostly German coins that whole different arena in coin collecting some information simply can NOT be looked up online I had buy books and catalog (mostly written in German language) and study and study the old fashion way to learn about German coinage I wanted to collect I haven’t looked back on US coinage for a long while nor bought any US coins for long time … The more educated you are the more better you’ll become when making decisions on buying coins for your collection it takes years to hone in that skills …I e never looked at my coin collection as a “gold mine” to make some $$$ on it … in fact I hope when I get older one of my kids take the collection I do NOT want a single dime back that I spent into it over all years other than I had the enjoyment putting it together

A very very nice German empire Frankenthal area of Germany 1918 NOTGELD 10pfg … for folks that don’t know about German notgeld money is interesting emergency money issued during German empire and Weimar Republic era after WW1 each territory and German states had their own design of notgeld money made in iron or porcelain and brass and bronze (non precious metal) there’s few catalog devoted entirely to German notgeld coinage some issues are very rare and some are common… Rarely do I buy the Iron issues of notgeld they are usually rusty and corroded so finding a very nice “blemish free” notgeld is like a needle in haystack ! This one is top pop, probably will remain like that for long time to come … I just couldn’t pass it up !

@smashan8 welcome to forums . To start off since you’re new to the Hobby be very very wary of watching YouTube videos on coins ! A lot of misinformation now a days on YouTube…. however please take a trip over to “US , World and Ancients coins” forums and look under “post your most recent Acquisition US” and “post your most recent Acquisitions World” coins you’ll see what some of us are collecting coin wise how we are building our own personal collections then ask yourself “Why” we don’t look for this “modern error” stuff because we been around for long time collecting and not wasting time listening to rubbish YouTube videos giving out wrong information on coins that are not worth a hoot ! It’s fun at beginning to roll hunt and learn but you’ll learn more on here from “serious collectors” than you’ll ever learn from a YouTube video

Now the newbies have something to look for instead of boring us to death with parking lot coins post after post or so called errors and made up varieties and so on here …. Thank you to the US mint !

I’ve had no problems on MA-shop all my coins arrived as I expected them too I’ve bought a good 20-30 coins on MA-shop over last 4 years graded and Raw coins both not one single problem with any of sellers … also bought about 5 or 6 German numismatic books on MA-shops (which isn’t easy to find on US market) one book was tough to find however a German coin dealer went out his way and found me a copy of the book 2 week later emailed me he found one! sold it to me for a good price compared what everyone else was paying for the book in previous auctions

you’re right again there’s still some good stuff to be found on on eBay even Facebook market place local sales and so on , if one takes time to learn and look for it … I haven’t collected any US coins for long while I mostly focus my time on German coinage and Exonumia

You’re correct I long forgotten about the 2 feather variety I wasn’t looking good enough at your picture …thanks for correcting that

Been long time but I used to collect Buffalo nickels seriously back in the days but I sold off my Buffalo collection long while back haven’t looked back since but I used to study the series a lot … I’m little Rusty here with Buffalo nickel series been a good 16-17 years since I bought/sold a Buffalo nickel 1918-S is a scarcer date early year Buffalo nickel if I remember correctly … your’s grades out to be VF to VF+ I’d say it’s worth anywhere $40- $75 to the right buyer (these are just estimated I didn’t really look into the pricing on current market today) …. Higher prices are seen for Gem graded Buffalo nickels more in Grades MS64 up to MS66 is pretty scarce to find in good high grade … is there anything really special about it ? Not from what I see in photos… there is 1918/7 Overdate Buffalo nickel but that was a 1918-D and not the S

You’re right you found one ! Take it nearest coin dealer and ask for $1,000 tops … Then come back and tell us how your experience was with the local coin dealer

German states - 1861-A Meck-Schewerin 3 Pfennig

German states- 1864-B Oldenburg Grosch

Nothing wrong with roll hunting but you’ll be very disappointed finding a true error in roll hunting is like needle in the haystack … most errors been cherry picked … you might find occasional “W” mint mark quarter while searching rolls there’s a few varieties out there as well …. If you want to get into error coin collecting ? You’re gonna need to study and research a lot and don’t listen or watch “so-called error collectors” on YouTube or something like that (just a heads up you’re wasting time watching these videos) so don’t … They give out the wrong information makes new people join hobby look like fools walk in pawn shop or coin shop trying sell a coin they believe is an error that they found simply because YouTube video told them … When it was nothing but post mint damage they got a shocker from a coin dealer (don’t laugh , I heard it happen to someone and they were really embarrassed) I find it rather Pathetic (another is new collectors buying “raw” error coins on eBay or somewhere else getting ripped off when it was not an error at all) … a lot of them YouTube videos need removed for misinformation bad bad bad it’s like cancer that spreads in our collecting hobby … best way to learn error coins buy a few books on errors (for reference) speak with other error collectors on here they’ll give idea why error coins you want to collect , mostly classic error coins that been graded and so on bring premium worth collecting most of the modern stuff is either a hit or miss value wise

I always heard Milk spots on pure silver coins was results of the mint washing the planchets in a solvent/degreaser bath before annealing process not all solvent or degreaser is washed off properly before annealing process … It happening on all type of silver .999 coins even world silver is getting these milk spots it’s not just a US mint problem it can happen anytime even in the original mint capsule it can still develop milk spots there is no time frame when a milk spot can pop up on a coin could be a few months or few years from what I read on the subject ….

Since it’s a raw coin you might have to dip it to remove the milk spot if it bothers you that much

best advice I can give you when looking for coins or starting out ? Try buy “key date” coins they are always usually in demand … study study study and study more when you think you read enough and studied enough ? Keep on reading !!! The more you read the more knowledgeable you’ll become that’s what makes a good smart collector … read on old price market trends VS newer market trend you’ll see how coins been doing the last 20 years or so compared today … it will give idea what coins are in demand on the market …. There’s a lot to learn about coin collecting before you even purchase coins do some studying first

As usual ! Sniper bidders

Pretty neat to see a batch of them together something you don’t see everyday usually it’s one alone that goes up for sale from every once in a blue moon. I believe last I read only like 40ish estimated of black slab gen. 1.0 NGC holders were out there …. Wonder if they would of sell better on heritage auction VS GC ? A lot more high rollers on Heritage auction would of probably drive prices up on them through the roof to the moon …

I myself never had patience to complete a full series or set of coins or just became to bored with a series . But congrats on your achievements.

They look cool something different to look at for a change… are they directly from the Mint they were issued from ? Were they colorized buy the Mint that produced them? If so NGC/PCGS will grade them …. They won’t grade any colorized coin that was done by third party artist … you have be careful if you want some colorized coins graded some third party artist buy bullion coins then paint or colorized them (then supply the personal COA with their coin they painted to sell to public) this won’t pass satisfaction with NGC/PCGS during grading they consider those coins altered… it has to be done by the Mint directly and documented with the mint then and only then NGC will grade them … so check with the mint they came from and confirm they were offering these coins colorized

I’m not too familiar with US minted stuff or bullion being painted (colorized) not sure if any US coinage or bullion is colorized today I don’t think so I could be wrong ? But most of the world bullion stuff is coming out colorized from their respective mints where they were produced and offered for sale standard colorized they are accepted by NGC/PCGS for grading …. It’s making a new market now a days coins that were hot property and lost their value ? There’s tons and tons of US coins modern and classic that lost a lot of value over the years … take ASE for example TV dealers / big dealers order monster boxes of them every year ship them off to grading tons and tons of money been spilled over that MS70/PF70 ASE then market cools down in a few months after they been issued and graded… now for classic coinage take Commemorative half dollar series was very hot property in 1980’s guys were spending thousands of dollars on a single coin… by 1990’s most of the coins in series lost a lot value today you can buy them in MS65 and MS66 for couple hundred dollars … huge lost in money… the problem with the US mint stuff is it’s too popular and it’s also massed produced in large quantities nothing is really rare at all anymore why they call it a “rare coin market” ? I have no idea … doesn’t seem to rare to me … there’s some coins are rare but 95% of the stuff is not rare at all