Bignubnumismatics

No, unfortunately. I picked a few up a few, but not the ones I need.

I do not, sorry

I’m looking for a December 1991, January 1992, and January 1996 NGC Census or Population report. Any condition as long as everything is readable!

Yeah, the sample slabs were part of Publisher’s clearing house gimmick and are extremely common. The box as far as I was produced in the early 2000s and unknown publicly until 2004.

Just received this in the mail today. couldn’t find much information other than it was for PCGS internal use only. Any one know when they were issued?

Hello, I’m looking for ; 1. MS-66 (67 or higher on common dates) and higher Buffalo Nickels, Mercury Dimes, and walking Liberty halves Preferably nicely toned. 2. Any pre 1916 NGC Fatty any grades Can pay with Venmo, PayPal, or Cashapp

I have a toned 1957 MS-68* Roosevelt, I also have some PCGS 67+ if you are interested.

Most of that article, and the December 1985 The Numismatist use the primary sources and then take a leap of conjecture.

Marks would definitely result in any shipment method of coins not properly protected. It would make little difference, however, if the original production was proof or business as if a proof coin was put into circulation it would garner the same marks.

For economy its been 2-3 months, standard has been about a month, however, they have been a bit slow opening the packages (~2-3 weeks).

$10 a piece for classic comes is a decent deal. I doubt you could find a cheaper pilgrim. If you can find what each classic commem was issued in, you can usually tell what the toning will look like. Sesquis are extremely hard to find nice toning on.

I suggest looking through old auction catalogs from the 1860s. many mention proof sets broken up between minor proof sets, and full proof sets. While not packaged together until the mid-late 1800s (and those are mostly 'third-party' velvet lined boxes/cases like maundy sets) they were still often purchased together.

I believe it was a keg of cents + a bag of half dimes & Dimes to Norwalk Ohio. Not very far from where I live and I visit regularly so I hope to find the keg one day, lol.

My apologies Tom. That could be, but I would find it unusual. They had a surplus of them already( 900,000) in the treasury, with many going to the melting pot as well. As RWB pointed out above, the only order for half cents in this era really was a $2,000 order. Other letters to Moore show bankers specifically requesting they not be sent copper coinage (just half dimes and dimes). With the mint happenings it is definitely possible though.

1831 half cents were definitely not created from 1829. 1829 half cents are of the first type, while hubs for 1831 and onward half cents were reengraved by Kneass. 1829 half cents also do not have true denticles, as collars were yet to be used in half cents (see 1828 dimes).

All of my information is coming from primary sources, Mint documents, letters of correspondence, and the coins themselves.

The 2,200 were accounted for as minted, but not delivered. Standard practices for the mint changed in the early 1830s (1829-1835) as to how they reported mintages (which is why there is the mess with that half cents in the first place). Every quarter they would deliver coins to the treasury and report how many were struck , not how many were delivered. This is why there is such a disparity between reported mintages. Half cents had reported mintages much higher than what was actually coined.

Breen was out there… Not a very good researcher and everything he couldn’t prove, he made it work somehow. Here’s my funny Breen letter though.

My personal belief is that they were struck in 1832. Mint records show that no half cents were delivered until 1833, which included coins struck in ‘32 & ‘33. Same hub was used for 1831 & 1832 but that’s what I would expect in any first year issues. Back dated proofs are accounted for already (different reverses). The 2,175 that aren’t accounted for were likely melted for copper in intermittent years between suppliers.

I had that written down for a while and then just now found out it didn’t save.

Moore wanted Kneass to revamp the half cent design for both aesthetics & for the new equipment the mint was due to receive after the visit from France. Many design elements were altered, most notably the bust itself and the denticles. Why would Kneass work on a die so much on a denomination that was unwanted and unneeded if it were to only be a circulating coin? Thus, they were struck with the intent to test out both equipment & new design elements. ~25 coins are known Master coins were produced with specially burnished planchets struck slowly on polished dies. proofs prior to 1840s used the same dies for proof & circulating examples. With a mintage of only 2,200 coins (of which none were known to be delivered unless they came with the 154,000 in 1833 with the 1832 & 1833 half cents) even if there were two types, proof vs business , the two would be identical other than the burnished planchets. the mint did not receive any new kegs of new copper planchets until 1833 (discussions and ~26 (I forget the actual number, I have it written down somrwhere with the rest of my notes) kegs were delivered to Moore from the Crocker bros in 1832 but they weren’t used until the following years. They must have used leftover planchets from 1829, so even when burnished, I doubt the quality was high. These blanks were sitting in wooden kegs for two years in Philly.

Red Book should never be used for values, but for what it is worth the last few red books haven’t been half bad with pricing. When the market actually keeps up with progressive pricing it works. As for info - a lot of information, especially with colonials, aren’t entirely true. Mintages are sometimes different as well. Even Greysheet is pretty useless to me now except for the proof and mint sets (most wholesalers I send out to post bids regarding bid so need that part). CoinFacts is my go to now for buying & selling.

First of all, John Albanese himself on numerous occasions (interviews and whatnot) that he doesn’t think ANYONE can properly discern whether a coin is decimal point in the way of grades. A,B, C coins are more bell curved than anything, not split evenly .333 ways. Most will be B coins with 10% being cream of the crop (which would probably bump a grade if you tried enough times) and 10% crappy coins that should never be cracked. on 65+ , or + coins in general. Albanese completely disregards them. A 64+ is treated as a 64, so we’re still talking about the same process.

Looking for true populations of the 1.0 Black holder, 2.1 white label, and 2.0 white label. Which were all used in the first two months.