I say if you can't tell the difference between an MS-63 and an MS-65, why pay extra for the latter? I'm building a US type collection, nice Uncs...
The notes I've seen (and sorry I don't examples I can specifically cite right now) were manipulated to get a higher grade, with the manipulation...
The note was folded before being printed, and survived the various printings without being unfolded. It probably entered circulation appearing...
Assignats issued 1790-2 have many interesting and valuable varieties. Assignats issued after 1793 in the name of Louis XVII are VERY valuable....
There is a big underground industry that manipulates notes so they achieve higher grades from TPG's. I've seen obviously wrinkled and/or creased...
Since Coinstar began business, tens of billions of previously idle cents, some out of circulation for forty years, have been returned to commerce....
Gold fever is a terrible thing.
Well. It's true that $500 notes on hand were beginning to run a bit low officially. But everybody knew that lots of banks kept big notes aside to...
Yep, that's pretty much it. Britain just forbade foreign exchange companies from regularly stocking 500 euro notes, after concluding the demand...
The reason the hundred is the highest denomination note the government actively circulates is because 100 $10,000 notes fit in a pocket, 1000...
My parents met in Canada. I love "Corner Gas" so much I have a couple of Brent's smocks I occasionally wear to work. I'm going to give a nice gift...
Canadians are 40/32 smarter than Americans? The US is currently bringing new presses up to speed that will print 50 notes per sheet.
Thanks, everyone.
Well, it's my shop. Like Lucifer said when he was cast into the Pit, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
Wow. The silence is deafening. Am I violating an unspoken rule by asking such a question?
I've been in retail for thirty years. My shop has literally taken in tens of millions in cash during that time. We've detected a grand total of...
Plus ultra indeed. Beautiful. Pity the soul who lost it over 200 years ago. That must have hurt.
Gresham's Law means that if there is a perceived difference in desirability among the tendering possibilities a spender has, he will spend the...
I put low-grade common Indian head cents, dateless, or almost dateless, buffalo nickles and such in change when I can. Who knows if one of...
Your link leads to an image of a coin dated 1685. That's four years away from the one she asked about. I think you found it.
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