Moxie15

On 4/13/2024 at 1:25 AM, Robertdpg said:

It's pretty valuable. I pick it up and wonder where it's been. Imagine all the hands it went through before it got to me. 

I think I'm lucky to be about to hold it for a while. 

I love this attitude. Just think how many pieces of penny candy that coin has purchased. A thousand different hands, countless pockets and change purses. I love the thinking

It looks like strike doubling caused by serious die deterioration with a lot of rough use

On 4/11/2024 at 4:32 PM, zadok said:

...give me a list of 10 modern coins, legal tender, lets say after 1964 that r not rare varieties that u believe will appreciate in value, lets say double/triple in the next 75 years....

French 1 centieme in UNC

Panama Balboa

Italian pre euro in very high grade

1998 eagle back Washington quarter in Uncirculated

Canada post 1964 silver quarters and dimes

uncirculated Ikes

Most 2023 and 2024 British issues

Well struck 1964 to 1969 Jeffersons

Uncirculated Red early Zinc Memorial cents

High grade early Euros

There are ten that I think will double their value easily in 75 years, some much sooner.

A few years back I read several articles that all said it rook 6 seconds to grade the average coin. Ten coins per minute 600 per hour 4800 per day. Figure 22 working days means 105,600 per month per grader. Three graders should be able to hit the 259,000 number. 

I wonder how many coins are submitted per month.

Of course they could. It looks as if they have no desire to open such a box, and I am not sure I blame them.I think it would be better to put a net grade than a 'what would be if' grade. That would create a whole other host of difficulties so it is ptobably best as Unc details cleaned etc.

  I must admit that I find you very confusing If you are trying to invest you have a strange attitude about it. If you are looking for help and advice you have an odd way of asking for it. If you are just trying to show you are the smartest man in the room, then....

if you are just bragging 

oh dear, I hope these are not the best you have seen

Smeagle hates stupid names for die breaks. They smell of Hobbits, Smeagle hates Hobbitses the mosts.

that is a cooking pan or bowl by revere ware. I have never heard of collectors caring about multi struck logos. Bur who is to say?

On 1/20/2024 at 2:55 PM, VKurtB said:

If he sheds a tear, he’s the anti-littering Indian. 

Iron Eyes Cody was the anti- littering Indian.

He was of Italian heritage with no Native American blood. Just a decent actor  who made a career out of the part. 

On 1/13/2024 at 10:44 AM, GoldFinger1969 said:

 

Treasury Department enforcement against the smugglers was sporadic. Most of the gold coins arrived safely, but occasionally the feds would “send a message to the coin community” by making midnight raids and confiscating gold as if they were dealing with dangerous drugs.

 

The Government is not always logical, especially when viewed in hindsight. For a long time it was illegal in California to own, possess, or transport into or through the state Meyers lemons fruit, trees, seeds, or products thereof. Offence of these laws or statutes carried penalties often greater than doing the same thing with marijuana. 

Seven? Let's see...

1. Has anyone ever gotten a "classic dryer coin" from a dryer?

2. Has anyone ever owned or even seen a complete 1964 SMS?

3. Why do people insist on calling certain half dollars 1964 SMS coins when no 1964 Special Mint Sets were ever sold or produced?

well, there is a start

On 12/31/2023 at 12:49 PM, VKurtB said:

How about we spell it “ludicrous”, or is it the inability to spell that occupies the same gene that allows everybody to define everything as they choose? I have lots of genetic markers, but thankfully not that one. “Ludacris” is the name of a rapper, and not a good one, either.

That is the spelling the spell check on my computer had as correct. So whoever programed the spellcheck has a spelling problem, and yes I have problem with spelling, always have .

Now, I respect your knowledge and dedication, but I think your thinking that the only way to define something is the way you define it and all other definitions are wrong is akin to thinking that if you are not Eastern Orthodox then you are not a Christian.

This is a hobby, as such it is meant to please and amuse the hobbyist. If you are pleased by completing a set of one of every possible variant minted then enjoy. It should cause you no pain or concern that another collector defines a complete set differently.

A set is complete when the collector is satisfied with it. The idea that some 'authority'  decides how one must collect is ludacris in my mind. To some a Morgan set is not complete unless you have all the VAMs to others if you have one of every date and mint, still others just every date, others still one in each grade. My set is complete when I say so not some expert or anyone else.

So yes if the collector has a group of coins that he is satisfied with then 19% is complete.

Yes, it can. If the coin can be identified to date and mint. Look at the low ball collecting. If the coin has a defining element to the date, such as the Type one standing liberty quarter then it can be identified and graded with no date at all.

As to 'Should it be graded', well, that is up to constant debate

It is a store token given to the customer in change. mMany stores used them as advertizing and to keep a customer coming back as it had value only in Whalen Bros. in Paris Ill.They are not worth much but are interesting and have a history all there own.

Damage. Hard life that one has lived

I have always found it odd what humans find valuable. Gold has turned men into blithering insufficiently_thoughtful_persons throught much of recorded history but has often not been the most precious metal or substance. Depending when and where you are standing many things have been more precious than gold. Silver, platinum, jade, iron, aluminium, just off the top of my head have all been more valuable than gold weight per weight at one time or other.   

I suppose it is all in one's perspective. What is the main use of a so called precious metal? Mostly it seems it used for money or to back money and make pretty things of little or no functional use. When a man is hungry he gladly trades his precious metal for food, thirsty he will trade for drink, here traded for transportation to get there. In short we all willingly and gladly spend that which makes us rich for that which keeps us alive and comfortable. Perhaps, just perhaps, 

On 12/8/2023 at 5:12 PM, RWB said:

“Precious metals” Usually gold and silver; sometimes made to include platinum.

 

 

may not be all that precious after all.

Short answer - no

Very nice cent I would put it in a better looking 2x2 but it is worth just a couple dollars. 

One must not apply 21st century knowledge and fears to such things. At the time of this letter the office had been open just over a year and was in an area that was not known as a hub of crime and was likely being run on a very limited budget. Was this the first letter mr Roberts wrote requesting funds? Was Mr Roberts recently appoointed as Director? So many facts we do not know, some we may never know.

It is easy to judge by ones own feelings and beliefs.

It is a strike issue. I think it is a weak strike, There are other possibilities such as a partially filled die or the the die was not straight. 

@Mike Meenderink  This has been interesting except for one thing. I have not seen your answer to what you think number 2 is.

That does not seem to show any die doubling in my opinion. It looks to be a bit of die wear and machine doubling. 

A man could keep something cleaner than a woman... I am speechless