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george and dragon sailors charm(silver)

Posted 09-17-2009 at 10:03 AM by coinbrian

Hi checking out old collection,found this coin,i think its a Hungarian Kremnitz,dont know year or value,anybody any idea or seen one before.It weighs 8 gramms width 34mm,i think its silver.any info would be usefull,Yours Brian

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Words and Pictures

Posted 09-06-2009 at 05:35 PM by chip

Thomas Nast was a famous 19th century political cartoonist, he is generally credited with symbolizing the republican party giving them the elephant as their parties totem. One of the leaders of the corrupt Tammany Hall political combine remarked that he was unconcerned about editorials and newspaper articles that blasted the ins of the great metropolis, because their voters did not read anyway, but that Nasts cartoons hurt them, because he was able to, using pictures, to convey ideas to the illiterate...

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Focus, focus, who needs focus? (and I'm not talking about Fords!)

Posted 08-26-2009 at 04:56 AM by Billy Kingsley

In my short time in the world of online coin collecting (June 1st, 2008-August 26th, 2009, as I type this) I have seen many different people say that you need a focus, or that you will just have a bunch of random items. And that "when it comes time to sell", you will get less.

To that, I say...so what?

Is there something wrong with not choosing to collect one thing and one thing alone? I think not!

Yes, while doing this approach to collecting,...

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A blog, you say? Eh, why not?

Posted 08-25-2009 at 07:57 PM by Billy Kingsley

I have not had good luck with blogs in the past. I've tried to create one on two different messages boards, (neither numismatic) and one board got rid of their blog feature for lack of interest, and one changed to a different board style and deleted all blogs when they did. Hopefully this board will not do that!

I have no idea what I will talk about here. I have some pretty strong-and unpopular-thoughts about coin collecting, but I believe them to be valid thoughts. I will share some...

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10,000 posts Contest - Lets start a Journal!

Posted 08-20-2009 at 01:38 PM by mrbrklyn

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Originally Posted by mrbrklyn

OK - Let's start the official Coin Talk Journal! Put your writing and editing skills to the test and see if you have what it takes to be a published author.

Contest Contest Contest:

Object of the game: To Win!

Object of the game number 2: To Learn!

Object of the game number 3: To Educate!

Object of the game number 4: to have FUN!

Background: All fields worth of study have Journals where research and commentary

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