TomB

I may have forgotten the proper rules to this thread, but I believe I can list another 1909 Lincoln, is that correct? This is unfortunately not a matte proof, but is pretty anyway.

The BLP quarter eagle is a design I have never owned, but one that I admire greatly.

The NS Seated Liberty design is fantastic!

Please tell me that your coin is a dollar, AzLarry, and not a half-dime. Although, heck, I think it would be cool if it was a half-dime! Either way, it's beautiful.

Well, if 1957 is the special year in the thread right now, I guess I could add a piece-

I hate to burst your bubble, but they are not one ounce silver each. They are copper-nickel clad, the same material that is used to make our debased coinage, however, each is coated with 51.7mg 0.999 silver. Therefore, the five pieces contain a total of 258.5mg 0.999 silver. To look at it another way, these contain a combined 0.0083 troy oz silver. At $36.50 for the group, you are receiving 11 cents of silver and $36.39 of tribute round, packaging and shipping.

Tom, then I'm presuming that this certificate that says "Struck in 100Mil. .999 Silver Clad Base" is actually meaning what you're saying? Oh, well, I liked them anyway, that's why I bought them. The silver idea was nice, but I actually got them for the designs. thanks Tom!

Hey Chad, may not be worth the money to you if you were looking at the silver end of it.

Yes, the certificate is telling you that they are plated in an extremely thin layer of silver over a clad base. Here is the NCM web page for details.

Count_Erfit that is a superb coin!

Will those tone well? Maybe give it a shot

 

Not after my last little stunt that prompted the post "What's the dumbest thing you ever done to a coin".

Are they all 1 oz of silver?

 

yea they are Chad. Mirrored proof. The reverse is the same Morgan reverse only at the bottom of them is a ser#.

 

$36.50?? Where can I get some for that price?!

 

I got these on Ebay chad. They had a starting of 12.95, no one bid until the last minute, but I had a max of $30. Got'em for that plus 6.50 s&h. Bought them wed and just them today. I know that they are on the National Collectors Mint, they distribute them, but they are 49.95 there. I'll take a good pic of one here in a few and show you waht they look like close-up.

I hate to burst your bubble, but they are not one ounce silver each. They are copper-nickel clad, the same material that is used to make our debased coinage, however, each is coated with 51.7mg 0.999 silver. Therefore, the five pieces contain a total of 258.5mg 0.999 silver. To look at it another way, these contain a combined 0.0083 troy oz silver. At $36.50 for the group, you are receiving 11 cents of silver and $36.39 of tribute round, packaging and shipping.

How many '17 proofs were minted?

Exactly zero.

It's nice to see images of MPLs, are you putting together a set?

Cool MS Seated half, Victor!

It's too bad the Monroe commem has such shallow relief, especially on the reverse, because it would be really cool if there were more detail in the design. Still, you have a really nice coin there, texasrichard.

John, that is a stunning 1910.

The 55 DDO is a true smoker, Larry!

I may have already shown this coin in this thread, if so, I apologize-

When I was in chemistry lab in high school, I used to hold a Jefferson nickel using a heavy duty tong and then heat the coin up over a bunson burner until it was white hot. I would then hurl the coin across the room at a buddy of mine who would attempt to deflect the coin or otherwise defend himself. Aside from the coins melting into the linoleum floor, I do not know that they were otherwise hurt.

 

Years later, your "buddy" sees you driving behind him on a NJ highway and hurls a railroad tie at your car...

 

My dumbest thing I ever did to a coin was try to cross it over to another TPG slab to stick it in a registry set.

Wow. It doesn't even look real.

When I was in chemistry lab in high school, I used to hold a Jefferson nickel using a heavy duty tong and then heat the coin up over a bunson burner until it was white hot. I would then hurl the coin across the room at a buddy of mine who would attempt to deflect the coin or otherwise defend himself. Aside from the coins melting into the linoleum floor, I do not know that they were otherwise hurt.

It was worth the wait.

I couldn't post your image directly from the web hosting service, either. I had to resize your image to 200kb or less and then have NGC host it.

Taro's half dime.

That's actually a pretty wild 1960-D Franklin and it would look positively fabulous in my Dansco 7070.

However, this is my coin.

By the way, I agree that there must be a better way to embed images in these threads.

I'll help you out with posting that image. Note, this is not my coin

That 1940 Lincoln cent has some spectacular color to it.

That's a nice 1818.

They are both amazing pieces, and the 1851 three cent silver is very well struck for the issue.