Latest additions to my birthyear set *or* It is nice to have friends :)

[CarlWohlforth]

My best coin collecting buddy sent me two inexpensive coins for my birth year set. Thanks! It is amazing how much pleasure I can get out of inexpensive coins. Sure I like having finest known coins and want my birth year mint and proof sets to rank on the first page of the PCGS Registry. But I also enjoy these additions.

[Swampboy]

I sure know what you mean Carl.
This one cost me a few bucks tops.
I'm thinking of sending it in to the plastic factory just to preserve it.

[CarlWohlforth]

Nice one! I love that combo of magenta and iridescent green.

Is '56 your birth year too or is it just coincidence you happen to have a photo of a beautifully toned '56 ready to post?

[Swampboy]

Coincidence.

I know your birthyear is  '56 'cause I bought a slabbed '56 for my Lincoln PCGS Registry set from you a few years back and you mentioned it came from  a birth year set.
If I can find that image I will post it.

[Swampboy]

Here it is.
It's a "D" mint and I love the die polish lines inthe field behind Abe's head.
Really lustrous!
 

[Bubblehead]

Here it is.
It's a "D" mint and I love the die polish lines inthe field behind Abe's head.
Really lustrous!
 

 

Wow...  Great photo..sure shows a tonne of luster..I like it, too!

[Swampboy]

Thanks bubblehead.
The 56 P image is a Mark Goodman image.
I paid more for the image than I did for the coin.

Crazy hobby!

[Bubblehead]

Thanks bubblehead.
The 56 P image is a Mark Goodman image.
I paid more for the image than I did for the coin.

Crazy hobby!

 

Hey!  That's what happens with a favored, but inexpensive coin... 
I have a favorite IHC that fell from an old screw in fuse panel in my grandfather's cellar. 
I was fooling around with the old panel, unscrewed one of the 30A fuses (or was it 15A?)
and an AU+, although Very BROWN, and having a huge, bright and brassy, burn spot nearly
in the Obv middle, 1897 IHC fell to the floor.  I was sooooo tickled.

I cleaned it, and had ANACS certify it.  Probably cost me $25 total for the effort.
It's now in the grandkids sorta "junque" box of coins, with a note relating it's short provenance, to date!

One of them ought to appreciate my having saved it....  or maybe not? 

 Just sayin'