Curry Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Hey nice 3 cent. By the way welcome to the forums! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrantique Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Joe and the hurricane those are some super pickups. Mercury dime guy, that's a heck of a way to announce your entry to the boards! Welcome to your new home. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonico Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 very nice! what an awesome coin to post for your first post here! BTW, registered in 2004?? man that's a lot of lurking welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpcienkus Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Joe and the hurricane those are some super pickups. Mercury dime guy, that's a heck of a way to announce your entry to the boards! Welcome to your new home. Thank you sir. I think at MS63, the $2.5 D is undergraded. Can't wait to see it in hand this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsshog40 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Sweet looking 3cs!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpcienkus Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Joe and the hurricane those are some super pickups. Mercury dime guy, that's a heck of a way to announce your entry to the boards! Welcome to your new home. (thumbs u Thanks Irvin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Joe and the hurricane those are some super pickups. Mercury dime guy, that's a heck of a way to announce your entry to the boards! Welcome to your new home. "New home" -- lurking for 10 years and first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny9434 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 nice 3 center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury Dime Guy-migration Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Coindude, Curry, thank you for your nice welcomes. Funny, I've been a member forever but never posted. Go figure... Yeh, timing wise I just picked up that coin for my collection and saw this thread and the last 3 coins were all 3CS pieces, which was strange/weird So I thought I'd add it to here...it just came in the mail. Here's a better image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane4911-migration Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Thank you sir! I just found a really nice 1960 MS65 FBL Franklin on Ebay that I scored at a good price. (Ebay photo is in my "Smartly Dressed Benjamin's " set) 2 cent, 3cs, 3cn (all Proof) plus a 60P Franklin in 2 weeks. I think Mrs. Hurricane is about ready to have me committed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane4911-migration Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 That is one really nice 3 cent. A few pages back a collector picked up a SL quarter that had this admirable leather-like toning. Not too much, not too little. The "steel blue" of your 3 cent fits the coin perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brg5658 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Forgive me for posting a non-USA coin here, but I thought many of you may like to see a rather unusual denomination. As you know the USA at times issued coins in denominations of 1, 2, 3, and 5 cents. But, apparently somewhat foreign to our thinking, a 4 cent coin never circulated. This 4 centavos coin from Portugal is a 2 year type coin (1917 and 1919 only), and the denomination of 4 centavos is quite curious for a decimal system. The UK had 4 pence (or groat), but that was not a decimal system -- the UK predecimal system was a base-12 or base-60 system (depending on how you look at it). The coin pictured below was minted in more than 10 million pieces, but full gem BU examples are hard to hunt down (I'm not saying they are scarce at all, but they don't come up for sale all too often). PCGS has graded 2 in MS65 (this is one of them) and NGC has graded only one in MS65. There are none graded higher by either TPG. A fairly common "problem" on this issue is a weakly struck lower portion/half of the 1919 date. This example has a nicely struck up date -- and some cool die cracks around the periphery on the side with the left facing woman. The satiny smooth lustrous surfaces are entrancing on this coin in hand. I hope I have captured them in the images. Cheers, -Brandon ======================================== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler N. Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 This Walker is exactly what I'm going for in my short set!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrantique Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Nice additions everyone (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonico Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 This Walker is exactly what I'm going for in my short set!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Hazen Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 My new 1886 toned Morgan arrived today and its stunning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainer020648 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Could not pass this one up for my type set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrantique Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Nice one Eric and Mainer (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsshog40 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Really nice stuff guys. Love that toning Eric!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLM Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Awesome toner Eric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wygold Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) Well it's been a few weeks since my last post. I thought I wanted to update some newps that I just won lately. But before I get to that, I tried my luck a HA.com auctions for a 1973-S PF 69 Brown Ike NGC cert. but was out bidded of 99.88 + BP. More than I wanted to spend. Oh well maybe next time. My first PCGS coin. I mainly collect the NGC slabbed coins and I couldn't resist on getting this coin. 1986-S Statue of Liberty Commemorative Half Dollar PR69 DCAM. 2009-D Lincoln Cent Formative Years MS 65 RD 2009 Lincoln Cent Formative Years MS 66 RD First Day Ceremony Now time for some Eisenhower coins. 1973-S Eisenhower Silver $1 U.S. Mint Sealed NGC certified PF 68 Cameo 1976-D Eisenhower $1 Type 2 MS 65 "Big Sky Hoard" 1971-S Eisenhower Silver $1 U.S. Mint Sealed NGC certified MS 64 1978-S Clad Proof Set I picked this set up @ my local coin shop for $5. I mainly got it for the Eisenhower Dollar 1973-S Clad Proof Set I also picked this up @ the same coin shop for $5 and of course I got it only for the Eisenhower Dollar Edited July 27, 2014 by wygold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny9434 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 i love the strike on that 73 s ike, nice score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wygold Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 i love the strike on that 73 s ike, nice score Thanks, I thought about sending it in the NGC but I don't think it's worth it. So it ended up in my Dansco Eisenhower w/ proofs album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raisethis2 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) Solid original coin. Off soon to NGC to get it's MS 66 FBL (hopefully). [/img] Edited July 28, 2014 by Raisethis2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raisethis2 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 And 2 of these almost identical. [/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromerunner Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeg Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Some cool history behind these pieces. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curry Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 And 2 of these almost identical. [/img] (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njf Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 another rival mint sealed ike set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wygold Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Another new purchase I wanted to share. 1978 Houston, TX. ANA Convention Souvenir Set. "Ike & L.B.J." Set. I'm not sure but the seller I got this set from says it's very scarce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
