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My oldest coins

Posted 10-15-2009 at 10:48 PM by Billy Kingsley

I thought I would add this post to my blog as I recount my 10 oldest coins, and 5 oldest US coins, as of 10/15/09. It might be interesting to see how that changes throughout the years!

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Here we go...
#1 Circa 300 BC Greek, possibly Sicily/Syracuse
(seller's pic)

#2 121-122 AD Rome, Hadrian, As. It looks a lot better in person!

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I did something crazy.

Posted 10-03-2009 at 01:35 PM by Billy Kingsley

Well, I went and did something crazy. Totally out of character for me.

I joined the NGC registry.

Now, if anybody has been following my posts for the past 15 months, it should be fairly obvious that I'm not a big fan of graded coins. That hasn't, and likely won't, change. And, in fact, the only coin that I have that is graded is a coin from a company that doesn't even rate onto NGC's registry!

But...Odds are, I WILL end up with a graded coin or note at...

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NCLTs: Sorry, I just can't get into them.

Posted 10-02-2009 at 06:29 AM by Billy Kingsley

Here's a topic that I've been thinking about for a while. NCLTs, or, Non-Circulating Legal Tender. For some reason, I just can't get all that interested in them. I don't really know why...they are perfectly viable options for collecting. It's not like I dislike the designs.

When I think about coins, which is often, as I have a lot of time on my hands

it's not NCLT's. I'm thinking about the coins that actually circulated and it is those I want to add to my collection!
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Why I'm not a big fan of grading.

Posted 09-30-2009 at 07:12 AM by Billy Kingsley

If anybody ever actually reads this, perhaps this will be a little controversial. That is not my intent, but it might be...so please bear with me (that is, IF anybody ever reads this!

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Now obviously, grading does have some big advantages, especially in this day and age, with counterfits so prevalent. A graded coin is, most of the time, sure to be genuine. Sure, some may slip through the cracks, and there are even fake slabs out there now, but that is by far not the norm. So that,...

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Currency, Part two.

Posted 09-28-2009 at 08:41 AM by Billy Kingsley

Wow, I filled the 10,000 character limit in the first post! I could write a book, if anyone actually wanted to read what I posted!

On another currency topic, *Star Notes*! These fascinate me. I don't know why, but they do, and based on the following they have, I am not the only one. Maybe it's because they are different from the norm. Maybe because another of my many interests is astronomy. Maybe, subliminally, it's interesting to have something that the government clearly admits making...

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