Thanks for that, they are neat coins. The problem with buying raw coins is whether they will grade, in this case VF35 to XF45 would be a winner,...
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The bid on those coins is around $1200 in XF, more for the "L" variety. I looked at Heritage's auction archives, which are admittedly some the...
I stopped at a coin shop yesterday where I looked through the fellow's bust and seated material. A couple of coins jumped out at me, both Bust...
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Another question to consider when trying to minimize the risk of being the victim of a break-in by a criminal, drug addict, gang, etc., is how...
I agree, but GC has no descriptions, and runs auctions for two weeks. Teletrade has been the leader in their style of coin auctions for a long...
And on pay phones, they have been taken out at an alarming pace, I saw this trend especially in the NY metropolitan area building about 10 years...
You could always get a "throw-away" phone at Walmart for $20 bucks or so and register it under an alias.
Worse in my opinion, I have been a customer since 1997. It looks inferior, not business-like. Who the heck is responsible for this change? What...
Good points. Develop a dozen different scenarios of what could happen if you had bad luck: For death or incapacitation, would your will work to...
I got their newsletter when I was just starting to get my feet wet in this hobby, liked their well-written newsletters. Classic American coins...
You could also hire a security guard or install an advanced security system with some type of insurance if all fails. With guard dogs in many...
When I saw the topic, I wasn't sure what the focus was going to be. Personally, I have never gotten enough back from the tax man to matter, the...
Don't quit a job until you have another, use your present good job performance as a basis for a better paying or more agreeable workplace.
Not enough grades at this time IMO. Sheldon X 10 for starters, a 700 point grading system. And then an advanced star, plus or other system or...
Good idea. There should be more to the grading of a coin than what one grading service gives numerically, and I have seen spectacular toning on...
Sounds like the shop is busy, busy, busy, which IMO is a good sign, I have seen a lot of pawn shops and even coin shops waiting for life to...
10 or more years ago Doug Winter wrote an article in the CDN monthly on how to collect type III $20s, that mint state issues from 1878 to 1880...
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