Sometimes I like them old and crusty

[K6AZ]

[wam98-migration]

Nice old half dime. Here's mine.

http://img92.echo.cx/img92/4192/dscn1777jpegof5sc.jpg

http://img92.echo.cx/img92/3776/dscn1778jpegof9dc.jpg

[K6AZ]

That's a nice one in a better grade than mine.

 

Nice to see you over here by the way.

[BankNote1]

It is something about just nice old worn circ. "un-messed with" coins!

[Hoot]

That's the biggest half dime I've ever seen!

 

Great little piece. I like the 53 with arrows variety. Amazing that the Mint reduced the weight of all the silver denominations but the dollar that year due to increasing prices of silver and widespread melting of coinage for specie value. Meanwhile, the dollar was being cashed in for $106 on the $100 face.

 

Hoot

[K6AZ]

It is something about just nice old worn circ. "un-messed with" coins!

 

You got that right. I bought that coin from a local dealer, buried among tons of the typical scrubbed seated liberty type.

[HaydenTubbs]

Yes,orginal 1800's material is becoming scarcer...nice H10c BTW

[TomB]

That's a beautiful, original coin. The entire Seated series is fairly scarce when truly original.

 

Amazing that the Mint reduced the weight of all the silver denominations but the dollar that year due to increasing prices of silver and widespread melting of coinage for specie value. Meanwhile, the dollar was being cashed in for $106 on the $100 face.

 

I'm surprised you would find that amazing, Hoot, after all, it is our US Mint we are talking about, right?

[Morgannut]

Great old "original as collected" coins!! These unscrubbed, unaltered examples are getting rarer every day!! Nice images too!!