I can count my blessings or it would be a problem. I have a good support system and a great family. I don't have the Chad mint set but I have...
I'm a little down right now realizing that everything I loved as a child and young man has been perverted or destroyed. And much of it was...
I used to love making these trips. A lot of stuff just lies around a coin shop forever until I stop by. I'd always ask them if they had a junk...
The odds are good that 2022 BU cent rolls will be far scarcer than 2025 and 1984 will be far far scarcer than 2022. But 40c each for a box of...
This same thing has been going on in India, Russia, and China for years as their middle classes explode. Some of the old Indian mint sets...
It does seem like you should be able to find this cheaper. This has been the problem all along with moderns and FM in particular. Most of the...
Wow!!! That does my heart good that such a common coin can bring this much money. Mintage was over 1100 and odds are good that 8 or 900...
It might never have happened without him. More likely Mehl was just in right place at the right time. The middle class was growing and more...
I believe this really does impact on the "growth" of the hobby and the extreme segmentation we see in it. Most people who do collect modern coins...
This is the prevalent attitude and assumptions but I believe it couldn't be more wrong. I started collecting in 1957 and had a hoot putting...
I rarely give a like but anyone with 64,000 deserves all they can get. :happy:
It might be a little self serving but I've always liked well made coins. Back when I started collecting buffalo nickels from pocket change I...
Computers get smaller and more powerful. The machines that make everything including computers get ever more huge and require ever less workers...
Now that Lincoln cents are completed there might be a lot of people updating their sets. Zincolns will always remind me of waste and greed but...
All wealth is created by the creation of mutually beneficial trade. Two parties contract to do something in which both profit or at the very...
Credit cards are highly inefficient, promote scam calls, and less safe than silver coins. They are safer than other metals but the difference in...
The government had everyone scared with their draconian edicts and contradictions. I was wiping down everything that came in the house with...
NO! This is a lie from the zinc industry. Every transaction still has a 50% probability of requiring a nickel. Nothing has changed....
Zinc is still toxic and a coin with the volume of a nickel contains enough zinc to kill any 35 pound mammal including babies and toddlers. Zinc...
These people are lobbyists for the zinc industry. In other words taxpayers fund those who "lobby" Congress just as we pay for everything else....
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