Hoghead515

I can relate to your pain.

Very nice. I'd love to add one of those to the collection one of these days. They have a pretty hefty price tag on them. I had several I collected over the years. Looked through them and no wounded eagles.

I didn't own any Barber quarters so I went ahead and bidded on this one. It's pretty worn and only graded F12 but I got a super good deal on it. I like these Barber designs and one of these days I'd love to add one or two mint state coins to my collection but this will have to do for now. I got a few dimes and a couple half dollars that are not graded, also not in good enough condition for having authenticated, but this is my first quarter.

@RWB has a very cool book that goes into alot of details of the work conditions they went through. It is a very awesome and interesting book. I loved reading it. It's called, " From Mine to Mint." They worked under dangerous conditions also. I highly recommend that book if you like reading about that kind of history. It made me appreciate coins more and look at them a different way than I used to. Those engineers and other workers were very intelligent and came up with amazing machines to help with the minting process. The workers sure earned they're money in those times. His book also inspired me to buy the Morgan dollar I posted above.

Here's one I just got back from having graded a few days ago. They gave it a ms65. I really like this one alot. I like those marks made where they pulled it through a drawbench. It is very interesting reading about all the work they had to do to mint coins back in those days. Those old boys put in some hard days.

Very cool find my friend.

He was there about 3 weeks. They say that place is bad about corrupting a person. I could only imagine I'd he'd stayed a couple months.

Never been there myself. My dad worked in Portland a few years ago. He came home with green hair and an ear ring. Also a few new tattoos.

I see now. I read all the way down the thread and still thought it was a 1922. Im losing it. Been a long weekend. That's a fact I didn't know about the 1921s though. Thanks for the info.

Is the coin above a high relief? I haven't studied on them much. I haven't looked at enough of them to tell the difference much. I only have one 1922 and I know it's the regular relief. It's a very weak strike. It looks no where close to as nice as the one above.

I got some dandys I can sell you that would go real good in that collection. Even got some that's been shined up really nice.

It's an absolute beauty. I love that even toning all the way around like that. And the clear center. You scored a dandy.

Very sweet merc.

Very nice brother !!!!! I love it. I think only one of mine I'd in an old fatty. Maybe 2. I know 1 for sure.

I spotted it soon as I saw it. You can tell that one is a bad fake.

I've cleaned several circulated coins in my day. Be in the cup holder of the car and spill pop on it or something. Be all nasty and sticky. I take and clean them and roll them up and send them in to the bank to go back into circulation.

The way I learned was I looked at true doubling coins. You can go to variety vista or NGC has a variety plus section. I trained my eyes. Once you look at several true examples and study them you will eventually learn the difference. Also go back through this forum at all the different post and you will see several examples of strike doubling. After a while they are easy to tell the difference in. Or most of them anyways. If you think you have one you can also look under variety plus or variety vista and compare it to the known examples. It took me a while but if you have lots of patience and are willing to learn you will get to where you can tell the difference pretty quickly.

I love that coin. I'm eventually gonna start collecting a few of those. That same series. It gonna be a while tho. I'm determined to get this Washington set completed. Main priority.

I thought he was talking about the other kind of flame job. I need to pull them all up in a pile and light them up. Start over again. All I can afford to buy back is junk tho. I'd be working on it too if I did. I guess at least I got alot of new parts in these I own now. I guess that's the bright side of it.

It sure is. Everything I own is junk. Work on them more then I drive them.

Thank you my friend. It's gonna take me a while. I been trying to get one a week if I can. It may be a few weeks before I can get any more. I hit a deer in our van and tore it up pretty bad. I had to buy another one like it. Gonna take 2 and make one. Only had liability insurance on it. This suburban we been driving is a gas guzzler so trying to get another work rig lined out.

Thank you. I need 57 more. Still got a ways to go but im slowly knocking them down. I have 28 of them so far.

That's a sweet addition. Thats a hard date to get. Love those CCs. I'm looking forward to adding more to my collection.

Very nice LemE. You have some of the nicest nickles I ever looked at. That is a dandy to put with them.

This one brought me down to 148 in the registry. Slowly getting closer to completing the set I'm working on. I got the 63d in ms66+ a few days ago.