Greetings Everyone!! Announcing my newly designed coin!!!! Just to let you know I finally decided to design my own "presidential trivia coin" based on the seven presidents that "died in office" if elected with Elections Ending in "Zero" (often referred to as TECUMSEH'S CURSE) within a twenty year sequence beginning in 1840 with the death of President William H. Harrison and 1960 with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Just posted ...
One thing I don't understand about humans in general is the apparent lack of ability to "allow" different opinions. It happens in all walks of life and it would seem it happens in numismatics too. Here are some examples: The people who think that all modern coins are not worth collecting. The people who think that all non-slabbed coins are not worth collecting. The people who think that all original surface, non-toned coins have ...
One of the posters on Coin talk was talking about the economy and the mixed feelings he had about finding coins that he felt were probably from a collection. On the one hand, he liked finding the coins, on the other he wondered if the coins were from an estate where the survivors did not know their worth. Were the coins sold for food money? Were the coins stolen? His question was, "...is collecting dog eat dog?" I think it is natural for a collector to ask these questions ...
Part of my sustainability project for coin collecting is that it be affordable, to this end, I have been buying a few rolls of cents and searching them, mainly to separate copper from zinc, but also to pull wheat cents and s mint marks. I have also been checking for certain errors, and accumulating the new commemorative cents. What I do with the zincolns is easy, they go back to the credit union the wheaties I just hold for now, the copper has me thinking about some experimentation, ...
I have read quite a few articles about society unravelling and social unrest occurring, some of them are fictional and some are factional, which means a story that utilizes facts that are used to underscore an ideology or world view. For instance Germany after ww1 was hit with terriific indemnities, punitive actions mainly instigated by France with the intent that they would be so crippling that Germany would never again threaten France, and that France would once again be the ...
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