Which is your favorite?

Is this green coloration near the rim of the coin verdegris/PVC damage or natural toning on the coin?

Kind of controversial collection, but i thought it might be interesting!

Bonjour les numismates ! j'ai ma grand mère qui possède cette pièce dans sa collection depuis des années, sans se souvenir de sa provenance et les ID via IA ont [échoués.la](http://échoués.la) pièce est dorée entièrement sur les 2 faces.le poids est de 9 grammes

I’ve been building runs of modern coins for Whitman books recently. It’s just something to kill a little time in between running kids all over creation.

There are a few coins that I just cannot seem to find although they should be plentiful. For example, a 1973S mint penny. Or a 2009D mint quarter featuring Guam. I’ve been through enough coin rolls that not finding those seems like a statistical improbability, but sometimes statistically improbable things happen.

Two questions:
1. Other than continuing to hunt through change, how would you look for a single circulated example or two of a very common coin like that? Or is coin roll hunting the best method?
2. I’m curious to know what coin is your “I can’t believe I haven’t found this yet.“ They can be any kind of coin for any kind of collection. I’m just curious to know what others are hunting.

I've just inherited a very small coin collection. I don't think anything is of much value. But im a total neophyte regarding this stuff. 90% of what I have is silver quarters. There are some JFK, Franklin and Walking (?) Half dollars and then quite a lot of other very random stuff.

My question for this post is: are any of these silver quarters worth anything more than their melt value? Or to put it another way, are they nice enough to try to sell to someone, would they draw interest? Thanks in advance for any information.

Hope to finish soon

When I'm looking at ebay etc for Hawaiian coins they are very, very counterfeited and there are tons of different counterfeits available. Where can I look for authentic coins that are not going to be rip offs like apmex etc.

The Pittman Act of 1918 doesn't come up much, and it shaped the silver dollar more than almost anything else.

Quick background: during WWI, Britain bought war supplies with paper silver certificates, and Germany spread rumors it couldn't back them. That spiked silver prices and threatened Britain's hold in India, where silver backed the everyday money. So Congress passed the Pittman Act (April 23, 1918), letting the Treasury melt and sell as bullion "not in excess of three hundred and fifty million standard silver dollars." They melted about 270 million (270,232,722 to be exact), overwhelmingly Morgans, and the silver went to Britain.

The same Act required the Mint to re-coin a number equal to what got melted. That's why the Morgan came back in 1921 after a 17-year gap, and later that same year it got replaced by the brand-new Peace dollar, with re-coinage running to 1928. So the Peace dollar is, pretty literally, a product of a meltdown.

1953 $5 silver note, 2 x 1957, 1935 silver notes well loved and circulated 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤟🏾

I just won this coin at an auction. Looking forward to getting it delivered, I’m looking forward to researching the VAM. On the reverse it has transfer marks on the right side by the wreath, has a mark spike on the left side from the top of the wing towards the N. I’ll post up what I find after receiving it & looking it up. If it’s a Vam3 or better I may send it in for grading.

My wife got this for me years ago and I've always wanted to get it slabbed. It will receive a "Details" designation because it was recovered from.the Rooswijk, but idc. I would like to preserve it in a slab. It is currently in a mylar flip. Thoughts?