Popularity is very important to the value. I have some large cents that have much lower mintages than the 1909 S VDB but are a fraction of the...
Being that my paternal grandfather fought in the Mexican-American war, I would include a coin from this era along with the Spanish-American, the...
This is a fantasy coin! duh!!! 1. No Morgans minted from 1905 to 1920. 2. New Orleans mint never officially made proofs. That was done at...
The percentage sound terrible but if you look at the total mintage from 1878 only this still leaves over 3 million as survivors just from that...
There's an episode of Decoded that covers this. Most of this is numerology which feeds superstitions new and old. So what if Geo. Washington was...
I have found that depending on what I am looking for on a coin determines what magnifier I need. I have 3 different lighted ones varying from 3x...
Most, if not all paper becomes off-color with age due to less than optimal environments such as oxygen, chemical vapors, UV light (fluorescent...
I have a Washington quarter on a dime planchet.:hail:
If you want to split hairs, thousands and thousands of us should be in the Federal Pen. Mercury plating cents, drilling a hole in a coin for a...
Why doesn't somebody start trolling for $6 or $30 bills instead. I'm tired of the 11 cent piece.
Looks like one from the orbital sander thread!
It could also be that somebody working for a plating company put it in the chroming tank. Before you chrome a car bumper you must first copper...
It is rather effective. I use extra coarse sand blasting sand and tobasco sauce in my tumbler so my coins are shiny in minutes not hours or days.
You are not alone. However, it is congress and not so much the mint that force feeds the quarter series and other coin designs on the public....
What would we have done if "Emperor" Tricky Dick had been on our money?
It is possible that this has been exposed to an acid or alkali that has reacted with the nickel. The weight of the coin will tell you if the...
I bought a pound of wheats that had a 1912 D that would grade MS63BN. I paid $8.95 plus shipping for approximately 100 wheats. I'd say I got a...
Why don't we just get rid of images of dead people on our money and design coins and currency like we used to (i.e. mercs, SLQs etc.).
World economics is not that simple whether a nation's money is fiat or backed by PMs. That's why economists go to college and still don't know...
Maybe if you put it in a particle collider it will knock the gunk off or get the coin down to absolute zero. Another idea would be to smelt the...
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