Hoghead515

Got to big and someone turned him loose

Thats probably what Ill go after when the time comes. Ill probably go for a business strike. More than likely will buy online. We dont have no local coin shops close by. Just pawn shops and the 2 or 3 we got are really proud of their inventory. They ask crazy prices. You can go online and buy a higher grade of the same coins they offer for half the price. Was trying to buy a 1956 GW one time in ms65 the one place had. They wanted $150 for it. I tried to haggel them down and they wouldnt budge a cent. I showed them a nicer looking ms65 on Ebay for $40. They told me to go buy it off them. They said someone will eventually come by and buy it. Told me they have no trouble selling their coins. I told them I dont see how. Must be people who dont know much about them. I priced checked several of their coins with ones online. They are rediculously overpriced on several. There was nothing special looking about them either. No appealing toning or anything that would make them worth more. This was just the graded examples. I never price checked the ones ungraded laying under the glass countertop. Didnt waste my time. They wont work with a person. Never tried the other pawn shops. They both have smaller invetory. Way over priced common proof sets i had no interest in. Never asked if they would come down any. I wish we had a regular coin shop here close with honest people running it.

I did a search with no results. Then with the links provided above I see what you mean. The lazer etching does leave a snake skin pattern.

When I get my first coin I dont care what kind it is. Id love it just the same as any other. I really like the older gold coins. I like the old Indian heads the best. Either Gaudens or Pratts designs both I find very appealing. But I will settle for a modern gold coin also. That will probably be more of what I can afford. A modern $5 gold eagle coin. But I will be very grateful when the day comes I get to add any one of them to my collection. I dont own any gold coins at all and I will be satisfied wigh what I can get. Id like one I can take out and admire and be content. Maybe in the future I may be able to own both one of these days but as of now trying to put a kid thru college and raise another and pay an awful amount of payments and bills has me restricted to barely buying one or two silver GW quarters a month for my complete set Ive been trying to put together.

Its a very nice onr for sure. Great find. Ive not fooled with peace dollars enough to know what to look for on them myself. Thats still out in the future sometime. It sure looks MS to me. But im not that educated on them yet.

Ive never seen one. Ill have to check them out. Must not been to popular. Never do hear of them. What years did they make them?

Ive got a 1 gram gold bar from PAMP. Ive also got around 3 or 4 grams of raw nuggets and flakes. Ive been wanting to add a gold coin to my collection. Im the type that dont care if it makes me money later on down the road or whatever. I just want one for the collection. Have no plans on ever selling it when I do get one. Im just a collector with no plans on trying to make money off my collection. Money dont mean nothing to me. Sure I need it and would like to have alot of it. But my collection means more to me than any dollar amount I can get from it. That being said I cant wait to enjoy admiring my first gold coin when I can save up for it.

Ive looked through them. They have what I collect but as you say they are way to high on what I collect. I can get the same coin off other trusted sellers Ive bought from before a $100 cheaper. The year and denomination I was looking at anyways. Didnt get the chance to look very long.

You nailed it my friend. We may throw in a "weeeee doggy" or a " Gollll- Leee," when we get excited about something. That is a real thing here.

I live way up the holler here in Ky. Raise maters and taters to eat. I just growed up talking like that. I can type more sofisticated than I can talk. It just comes out like that. Never been able to control it.

Looking good Mr. Bill.

That is a very cool find. Great condition to. There are error collectors who would love to get hold of that. I dont know what kind of value to put on it.

People where I live at that dont know me ask all the time where Im from. Tell me I got that deep mountain hillbilly voice. Im live around hillbillies and the hillbilles I live around say I got the most hillbilly vocabulary they ever heard. Jed Clampett dont have nothing on me.

I seen that to. I knew just soon as I seen it that it was a zinc.

Dont feel bad @Hinklemy friend. Ive been burned several times. Espically buying from stock photos. I learned my lesson while back. I think I have a thread on here to about it somewhere. Supposed to been a BU and got one with obvious circulation. Also had scuffs all over it.

Took me a few also. Im still not good spotting some those DDOs. Unless it looks like the 55 Lincoln.

Not sure. Dont know if they would use something that strong. These others on here would probably know. They will chim in here directly.

It wont wipe collecting off the map. There are millions of examples out there to collect. Id say the mint would still strike collector series. Such as proofs and ASEs. If they done something like that it would be the business strikes. I dont really see them doing it in the near future. They may render certain denominations obsolete. Such as the cent. But there is still way to many people dependent on cash.

Im thinking this one is done from an extremely worn set of dies that should have been changed way before this coin was struck. That or it was exposed to acid like Coinbuf mentioned. Something like that. Its got excess metal built up on the devices in spots. Ive never seen one yet that has this look to it. If this is im gonna make a small collection of examples from very worn dies as I find them. Maybe 5 to 10 coins and have them labeled and put up in a seperate box and used for a teaching lesson for my kids and I. That way we can all learn more together and I can show them examples. This will be a perfect example of a damaged coin to include in that collection.

You can really tell it on the U. I tried for a while to capture it in a picture. This is the best I can get.

Its hard to tell from my crappy pictures but the reverse looks like its got excess metal built up in spots on the devices. You can see it with a loupe. You can tell it a little bit on the C in Carolina in the pic. My phone takes horrible pics tho. Its got more minor doubling on this side also. Like it was worn pretty bad also. Maybe caused some slight abrasion when it struck it. Could the coin have moved very slightly from extreme worn dies giving it that effect.

Now that you mention it, it does look pretty mushy. Not bad as the obverse tho. Heres a pic. I should of posted it to begin with but had to run off in a hurry and take a trip into town.

Thats a very good posibility. Thats probably why its so distorted around the rim. I been sitting earlier thinking of all the posibilities before i posted it. One was a improperly annealed die. Made it weak around the edges. But im not experienced enough to really know what improper anneled dies do. Just one of the things bouncing in my head. Acid sounds alot more probable.

What is going on with this quarter ? Its got some serious doubling all around the edge of the obverse. None on the reverse. Is this caused by an extremely severe worn obverse die? Or is something else going on?

I got 4 rolls of quarters today from the bank. Over half roll in one was all BU 2020 D Marsh Billings quarters. Dont see very many D quarters in this area. Id say 45 to 50% out all 4 rolls were denvers. That dont happen often. I filled several slots in my Whitman albums. Never do see Denver coins that plentiful at one time in this geographical location. No W quarters tho. Was hoping all those shiny Marsh Billings had a couple in them. Every single one of them were Ds. All out the same roll too.