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Just can’t beat the confetti nickel. Nice to see it again. When are you sending that one to Mark for imaging?

Just curious, what does it weigh?

Thats cool. Haven't dove into Hennings. I have my hands full with the regular nickels. Cool piece though.

I looked for the void in the R and didn’t think I saw it. Pareidolia on my part with the S. I’m not quite up to speed on my Henning nickels. Is the R marker there?

Very nice. Is that an “S” I am seeing?

It’s not that I don’t want to go to shows. I just really haven’t had the time to go to any. Over the past 2 years I have averaged 70 to 75 hrs a week at work and all of it has been mandatory OT. Hell I barely have time to mow the yard much less do any traveling, not to mention that it kicked me up a tax bracket. (Hope you enjoy my money IRS.) I do want to hit a big show at some point though. Maybe Florida FUN in January. It has to be nicer than Illinois weather down there. St. Louis area would be a feasible trip for me. Any good shows in that area? It’s closer to me than Chicago.

We could probably have a mile long thread of bad listings. Some are quite humorous. I saw a Bob Evans coin the other day and the description said “MS62 condition - moderately circulated” They wanted $2k or some ridiculous amount for it as usual.

These are cheaper and are a pretty close match.

I think I was expecting more from the coin than I should have. I usually have pretty good luck when I buy and am happy with the coin in hand. There have been several times that the coin is much better than I thought it would be. It would be nice to be able to see the coin in person before a purchase, but I am pretty well locked into buying online. I just don’t have the opportunity to go to shows and there isn’t a good LCS anywhere near me.

That’s the thing about this coin. It looks much better in the seller pics than it does in hand. The first pics are more accurate. I wasn’t expecting vivid rainbow colors or anything, but thought there would be subtle hints of pink on the reverse and the luster isn’t quite as good. It does have pretty clean surfaces. I have had this coin for a while. Just got the pics back from Joe a few weeks ago. It is a nice coin overall but sometimes pics can fool you. @Hoghead515 your prize is that warm fuzzy feeling of being right. Thanks all.

Ok here it is. These are the original seller pics. It really isn’t a bad looking coin, just not what I was after for the set I’m building. Decent luster and pretty clean overall. Was hoping for a bit more color other than brown and yellow. Maybe “bad buy” was a little harsh. Thanks all for the responses.

I wondered about this when I first saw it.

Very nice Mr.Bill. Same packaging as last year. I’m still waiting on mine. They sent me a shipping notice on the 14th, but the tracking info says USPS still waiting to get the package.

I agree. Leave the coin as is. It has some very nice even toning. I like the look of this coin.

I’ll let it go a little longer and reveal later this evening. Thanks for everyone’s participation.

No, the spot doesn’t really bother me. The seller pics fooled me into thinking it had some color to it. Most of the time the color is hidden in pics and the coin is usually better in hand. Not the case with this one. Complete opposite.

The last two books I bought were both on large cents. The first was by Newcomb and the other was by Grellman. They are both similar in content dealing with variety attribution. I feel like Grellmans book is a little more user friendly, and then I use Newcombs book to help verify. I have only used it to attribute one coin so far with my large cent collection sitting at a whopping 2 coins. (One was already attributed, but I did verify with the books.) I do hope to grow my large cent collection in the future.

Not super proud of this coin and considered it a bad buy, but I figured I would throw it out there as a GTG and get some use out of it. Let’s test them skills.

Welcome back brother.

Looks like a cleaned counterfeit.

When you go to the main page ranking all of the sets of a particular coin (Morgans in your case) it will have the amount of slots the set has at the top.

I knew someone would appreciate my mundane observations.

I just got my first one in change a few days ago. Just now realized that the 2s are a little different from last year.

It is a real coin. Mine is kind of beat up. I believe this show was canceled due to covid. I bought it from ebay for $10.

Here is a newer version of a sample slab I picked up.