Here's my latest gem.
I paid about ¥300 (~$2.40 at the time) at the Osaka Coin Show several years ago for a brass replica Sado Koban Kin. A real 18th Century 17.8g...
Seller's image of my latest acquisition - not yet in hand but this seller's photography is always accurate and spectacular: [IMG]
I think you'll find that the ratio of active currency/coin collectors here at CT is much higher than 600:1 if you carefully analyze the numbers....
Here is an enlargement of your coin's edge in which it is easy to see that the "reeding"is not evenly spaceddoesn't consist of completely parallel...
Easy, hard or otherwise, it's the only way a US cent could get what appears to be a reeded edge. Yes, I know that it's worth exactly 1/100th of a...
VG 1921 penny <50¢VG 1928 penny <$1VG 1929 penny <20¢1917 1/2 penny <$11991 25th anniversary of decimal currency -fiftycents,proof like...
They are the cheapest in absolute terms, but percentage-wise you pay a much higher premium, so they aren't really all that great a deal.
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Your statement is just plain wrong wrong if by tax you mean income tax - just ask your friendly neighborhood coin dealer what s/he paid last year...
Quotations are from my most recent editions. I don't believe there have been any changes in the stated purposes of the books in later editions,...
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Based on the visible card information, you seem to have KM#115, a 14K gold business-type strike with mintage of 650,000 and AGW of .250 oz....
If you are quoting the AGW (Actual Gold Weight) it's a good deal, but if you are quoting the total weight of the coin, the answer to Doug's...
How times change. When I was in journalism school almost 60 years ago "Sources from (insert name of party with ax to grind here) report . . ."...
Click on this link to a previous discussion of the topic. I guess Catbert is quicker on the trigger than I am.
Let's start a list of the best investments available these days. My own top choices, in no particular order:Nigerian bank stocksColorized...
Advertising "banks" of that type were common in the first half of the 20th Century. According to its website Bank of New Orleans has only been...
Precisely why the OP needs qualified professional tax advice. There are almost 60 different sets of tax (and inheritance) laws in the U.S., and...
1923 Great Britain half penny - KM#809, Bronze, mintage 12,296,000, value <$1 1926 Great Britain penny - KM#826, Bronze, mintage 4,499,000, value <$2
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