Silver and Obama's

[Dannycoco]

I picked up three boxes of halves yesterday and scored 26-40%ers , 1-90%er and 4 Obama's. The boxes have been really good lately .

 

[LooseChange]

What is an Obama? Is that a variety or an error?
I'm assuming error.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

What is an Obama? Is that a variety or an error?
I'm assuming error.

Very intelligently (and craftily) put

 

[enamel7]

On a serious note, when these decals or paint are put on these coins, contrary to the shop at home folks, the coins lose numismatic value.

 

[Dannycoco]

My apologies Treasure Hunter.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

My apologies Treasure Hunter.

No apologies needed Danny, just trying to enforce our rules and keep the political comments out of all forums other than our politics forum. It only takes a few political comments to escalate to a full blown war of wars.

 

[Oddjob]

What is an Obama?

No kidding, I never heard of that before, I had to google it.

 

[Quin]

On a serious note, when these decals or paint are put on these coins, contrary to the shop at home folks, the coins lose numismatic value.

What numismatic value?

 

[enamel7]

What numismatic value?

If the coin used was a BU coin before it design was put on it no longer is that grade.

 

[ecmo]

What numismatic value?

Numismatic in its definition is the study of coins, a numismatist is basically a coin collector. They may collect by series, type, mintmark, key dates in a series or whatever.

Coins are graded by condition. As condition goes up so does value. It's interesting to pick up a copy of A Guide to United States Coins, commonly known as the red book ok coin collecting, and yes the cover is cherry red.

In it you will see all your condition/wear factors of each type of coin and it's corresponding value, but only if you're buying, not selling, lol.



Don

 

[Quin]

Numismatic in its definition is the study of coins, a numismatist is basically a coin collector. They may collect by series, type, mintmark, key dates in a series or whatever.

Coins are graded by condition. As condition goes up so does value. It's interesting to pick up a copy of A Guide to United States Coins, commonly known as the red book ok coin collecting, and yes the cover is cherry red.

In it you will see all your condition/wear factors of each type of coin and it's corresponding value, but only if you're buying, not selling, lol.



Don

I actually wasn't asking "What is numismatic value?". I was just commenting on the fact that generally, the coins these 3rd party groups are using to make the gimmicky president/icon half dollar coins probably didn't have much numismatic value to begin with. So, I don't think that should be much of a consideration when we're talking about these coins. But I agree, they're kind of a dumb product haha