I hate to disagree with the consensus, even if only conditionally, but you really do have to check the weight of your dollar. If it is 22.68g,...
Quite obvious that none of the bidders bothered to check him out on Toolhaus.
Slightly OT, but my wife and I agree that our first look at the actual Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Louvre was the absolute highlight of...
I didn't realize the Home Shopping network was that old.
Just a bit more than my weekly takehome pay at that time.
Very interesting. I had always thought those irregular holes resulted from poor casting techniques, or post-casting damage, but now I know better.
http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t14169/
I posted a reply earlier, which seems to have disappeared. The top two are definitely Chinese, as evidenced by the Manchu script which indicates...
To me the answer depends on whether the coin is being "collected" or "invested in". To be "collectible", it only needs to be appropriately priced...
Oh, my mistake. I guess without cable I'll have to pass on seeing it.
10x is more than adequate for numismatic purposes 99+% of the time.
In your dreams buddy! BTW different PBS stations show History Detectives at different times and on different dates. None of four (last day)...
How come the pictures are so much better than they were on the other forum?
Hmmmmm. All pictures are of the same coin? I would give the obverse F-12 based on the first picture, or VF-20 based on the second; but the...
You tell 'em kid.
Yup.
That tells me that you probably weren't born then, and certainly weren't over 5-6 years old!
Correct. The "C" did allow considerably more than the "A" or "B", however. Truckers handling defense related or other "essential" goods got "T"...
The experts have various theories. My guess is that they are a manufacturing code, but I really don't know.
The ration books the government issued during most of the war years came filled with different-colored stamps with different point values good for...
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