I suspect your enthusiasm for the Mint's programs are fed by the prospect of personal benefit of one sort or another. Please prove me wrong.
I understand, but here's the rub. Neither the US Mint nor the USPS is supposed to have a "business model". They are services paid for by US...
Costly is a relative descriptor. Might cutting out the costs of all of the prolific modern noise in the hobby might make the higher costs of more...
Point well taken yet, reading between the lines, I sense that given the opportunity to buy a nice deal of stamps, you would buy those that you...
I think the enjoyment of collecting coins to link the chronology of related stories as our nation changed, for the appreciation of the designs and...
Humankind has always had to work, be it a "job" or not. Whether foraging for food, gathering and drying firewood, building / repairing your...
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I wouldn't go quite that far. I suspect there are many submitters who make out great on the majority of their submissions, but get pretty darned...
The top coin was likely buried, and lost more material off of its total surface area due to environmental corrosion than the bottom coin lost at...
I like the coin as an AU55, and would also have beaned it, if not for the rim ding. A very nice, natural looking coin.
Isn't that more like removing the coin from the spot?
Way too many red flags.
That's never going to happen. Too much overhead for the TPG's to manage.
I don't believe any criminal would be stupid enough to do that. Are you telling me that someone stole your certified coin, broke it out of the...
I'm not sure I follow your thinking. Can you give me an example?
I don't think the coin would grade 61, but I do think it will grade 58. In any case, it doesn't belong in a holder. It's more of a 2x2 coin in...
The community can be vigilant for the serial numbers, but there’s no such thing as a TPG freezing transactions of serially numbered coins. Also,...
A special coin to be sure.
A mailed package, particularly a cardboard mailer or corrugated box will absorb moisture in transit between origin and destination. Even though...
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