Revenant

Happy Birthday Rev! I have a 3-coin set of the congress bicentennial, and I really like the designs of the dollar and half dollar, which has a close up of the freedom statue's head.

I keep trying to get myself a nice PF69 half dollar (since I like that design too) but I can never seem to find one going for a price I consider reasonable at a time when I can devote the funds to it.

Thanks for all the b-day wishes guys. For the record it was a pretty nice day. I got to spend some time relaxing, and for a Junior chemical engineering major with a part time job that's saying something in and of itself. I also got some great news when I realized that I had longer to do 1 hw assignment than I thought I would and another wasn't nearly as long/hard as I was expecting (these 2 things combined are mostly why I got to relax all evening). No drinking though. I have a freshman roommate and a little known and obscure rule prohibits having an open OR closed container in the dorm unless both of us are 21 (which he isn't). If I'm caught with alcohol in the room I'll get written up for an alcohol violation even though I'm actually old enough to drink. You have to love university policy, right?

Nice pickups, William. Images looks great. Those darn slabs play havoc with the lighting. Happy belated birthday.

Thanks for the b-day wishes. I never knew until yesterday that "Black Monday" actually occured on my first birthday.

The lighting is a definite pain with the slabs. I also don't have my tri-pod so I had to hold the camera and I had to cut the shutter speed down to 1/125 to keep from blurring the image but that made the images darker than I wanted. It's crazy how hard it is to photograph a reflective surface, that's underneath another reflective surface.

I garee, the pics are fine taking thru slabs. Nice pick-ups there William. I like that Congress $, I hadn't seen one of those. They have a nice design.

Yeah, it's an image of the statue of freedom that sits on top of the Capitol building. heh. Liberty is a woman and Freedom is a guy. Who knew? (We'll I think the statue is supposed to be a guy)

Nevertheless, an interesting coin. Here's a pic of the reverse in case you're interested.

Well, these are some of my latest. The gold coin I bought to celebrate turning 21 on the (19th) and the commem is the first of what I hope will be several modern silver commem proof dollars. I think the commem dollars are some of the best coins to come out of the US Mint in the last 20 years.

(BTW, let me know what you think of the pics since this is one of the first times I've tried to photograph as opposed to scanning the coins.)

Hey saen, do you prefer the Mint States or the Proofs? I like the modern commems and I'm hoping to start building a set but I'm generally finding the proofs to be more appealing.

(I'll be posting 1 or 2 of my newer purchases in a day or two hopefully).

I just managed to win 2 MS66FT 1955-D Roosevelt Dimes. One is for my 20th century type set the other is for my step father's birthday present since he was born in that year.

Can anyone tell me what the FT designation means and what the trend value for these is? Numismedia doesn't seem to list a value and I want to get a feel for how well I did (or didn't) pricewise.

Thanks.

I continue my single-minded pursuit of coins for my Lincoln cent set. I have 4 more coins on the way (no pics but sellers pics); a 1955-P, 1955-D, and 1956-P in NGC MS 66 RD and a 1983-D in NGC MS 67 RD. 1955 and 1956 are the birthyears of my mother and stepfather and those coins complete those 2 years for me. 1983 is my sister's birthyear. I'm still working on a 1983-P as well as 1981 and 1986 for my older brother and I. I hope to eventually have a full certified lincoln cent set but I give priority to birth years.

I posted in another Forum.I collect Silver Eagles.I recently became a paid member.I have 1986-2007 W in both Mint State and Proof.The MS collectionis graded and a mixture of MS69 and MS70.The proofs are in raw state.I also have an album with raw bullion.I decided to use my free voucher and sent in 5 of the latter to test my Grading.Four came back with a grade of MS62-MS68.

 

I received them in the mail today.

 

The fifth one came back as a 1987 Silver Eagle as an OBV Struck Thru MS69 Mint Error..

 

I have not heard of any errors on a Silver Eagle.. Anybody have any comments on this coin?

I'd sure like to see a picture of the strike thru.

That's 1!

Personally I'm wondering what an MS69 Error coin could potentially be worth.

Reminds me of this beauty I found once, only it's a 1910. Mine I honestly think is a case of silver-plating though. Yours... I'm not so sure on.

I just picked this up for my ever expanding late wheat cent set. Ebay item #300143347298. I have one of the seller's (4) pictures below. It should be a nice additon though I ended the day kinda disappointed. It was only 1 of 4 or 5 cents I was hoping to get today and I got beaten out on all the others. I also decided to order a 2003 P&D cent set in MS 68 for what I feel was a good price.

A co-worker of my mother was born and raised in Bulgaria, she got me a complete set of their pre-Euro coins. Here are the best pics I have at the moment:

Well I just got this 1930 Lincoln cent in today. It's MS66RD, and I know there are some on the boards that don't think much of lincolns but I saw this thing online about 10 days ago and a little voice and the back of my head just started saying MINE! I also picked up a 1993-D in MS67RD for about the price of certification from the same seller. I needed it to help build on my cents set and it's the birthyear for my younger step-brother.

counseling, hoping to go on to get my phd in counseling psychology. I have my BA in psych and BA in religious studies from Thiel College, a little Lutheran liberal arts school in northwestern PA.

 

At 22, I'm probably one of the youngin's on here

 

With that being said...let me absorb all your knowledge!!!

HA! I'm 20 and working an my B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University! I'm younger and probably more ignorant! (Hey, when you aren't the best sometimes it's more fun to be the worst. )

Very nice William I picked these up yesterday. Do you guys think that any will get a 70 if I send them in?

 

Based on the images I wouldn't expect 70's but you never know until you try.

Here are my two newest, new additions for my SAE collection:

Irvin,

 

Nice details on that Buffalo. What did you mean by most approved.

 

Very nice coin.

 

Rey

Probably the one he's happiest with. Just a guess.

Thanks, guys. It was the "free coin plus $4.95 shipping" deal from www.ahs.com you see in the paper sometimes. I thought for five bucks, I can't go wrong. I was quite pleased when it actually came.

I did the same for a Morgan just the other day, ordered the "free coin" and turned down everything else. I doubt that I'll have anything that nice though when it comes in 4-6 weeks. I just figured that for 4.95 how can you go wrong with a coin with $9+ in silver. I'm also going to be taking advantage of this deal for 2 Walking Liberty Halves, "Free + 2.95 S&H." Again, not bad for $9 worth of silver, even if the coins they send me end up looking terrible.

There's always lots of cool Morgans here and crito's early commem was definitely awesome.

I guess I would put that Morgan at about a MS63, though I am no expert

I agree that is a nice Ike there. It appears to have a nice golden hue. I wouldn’t dismiss it for a coin a grade or two higher - JMHO.

Thanks.

It does indeed have a nice golden hue. I'm used to pictures and lighting conditions lieing to me though so I wasn't going to count that in the coin's favor until I saw the coin itself (I was using the seller's image). That coloring does give it a kinda unique look for an Ike though the light has to hit it just right before it'll pop out at you.

My most recent at the moment is this 1976. I haven't even gotten it in the mail yet but it should be here in another day or so. I could have gone for a slightly better grade but I got a nice deal on the coin and I was after it for a type coin, not to be an ultra-nice coin for a some major set I'm building. If I ever decide to seriously build an Ike set I'll probably replace it with a MS 65/66.