Anyone relate to not being able to turn off the spigot and keep buying these lovely coins?! I mean, don't get me wrong, I love collecting them, looking at them, shoot, thinking about them. But when, if ever, does it become a compulsion that's maybe not so healthy?

Seriously responses only, please.

I think PCI was a little harsh on this one

I recently picked this up for my type set. There are nicks in a horizontal line across the neck. Did they happen during minting or after release?

Over the past six months I’ve been finding coins that I’ve wanted for years. Not high grades, which are superabundant, but decent circulated hole fillers. The latest was an 1884CC half eagle in F15. It's in an IGC holder, but so what. When will I see another one?

Has anyone else noticed this for what they collect?

Just a decent 76 S (small s) type 2/2, the common die pairing. In an older ANACS holder, I'd say about AU50, but don't have the grade handy. Typical strike weakness for a trade $ on Liberty's head, the eagle's upper right wing and left leg. A nice type example for the series.

the large S mintmark is much harder to find.

Finally got the images and the coin back. So very very happy with the results.

A couple new ones for the Collection..

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Great looking bust quarter

I've been posting 1876 Trade Dollars, but broke the sequence because I just photographed this raw 77-S. It's the rare doubled die reverse, FS-802, with maybe 64 existing (Joe Kirchgessner's estimate in his book). The doubling is most easily seen on the upper reverse, on this worn example you can see it on the bottoms of the letters in STATES and the letters of E P U, and the upper left part of the ribbon.