A coin from the 1830's is more likely than not to have had its surfaces "improved" in some way. 19th Century collectors were big on cleaning...
I look for that, too. Beverly Hillbillies reruns are a great place to see notes. You can even see the transition from wet to dry plate printing....
Austrian 4 ducats. With that hole, it's worth melt value only. Still, that's around $610.
A healthy capitalist society is dominated by people hoping to sell for more than they paid. A sick capitalist economy is dominated by people...
You would guess wrong. I'm fifty-one, and a self-made man. I've also studied of money as an avocation since I was five. The idea that commodity...
I've done business with APMEX for years. Every transaction was satisfactory. I don't care what you say; you sound like a malcontent of minor means.
In 1974, I watched a fellow high school student as he rubbed a dime on the sidewalk outside the gym, where there was a coke machine. His stated...
Looks more like a mash job than a brockage to me.
Star note errors are, statistically speaking, 50-100 times rarer than their non-star counterparts.
It is a scarce and valuable find. If I were still collecting error notes, I'd pay $1000 and think I got a deal.
I don't need to reread what you wrote to know you're wrong. The value of coins in circulation in 1964 was a tiny fraction of the money supply....
Japanese soldier makes more sense.
If I recall, there was a significent theft of gold from the New Orleans mint in the period between the Federal loss of the mint to the state of...
We old-timers used AU-BU the way AU58 is used these days. Also like "Choice AU" or "slider"
Silver was eliminated from largely eliminated from coinage in 1964 for one reason - cost. As the intrinsic value 90% silver coins approached...
With many other economic metrics indicating growth, a consensus developed among investors late in the day that the employment report was anomalous...
The Mint itself has researched this phenomenon. It seems the typical cent, once unrolled, is used in two transactions before it disappears into a...
I agree. It doesn't have an unusual serial number, so it's not facially evident why it is a specimen note.
No, that won't happen anytime soon. Even in more "advanced" countries, there's no imminent collapse of the cash economy. Did you know relatively...
At the moment, with silver at $29.24, APMEX is selling $1000 bags of 90% silver coins for $21,021 (100.54% of melt), and buying them for $20,298...
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