The Educational Coin Company is selling these notes for 42 cents each in lots of 10, or 35 cents each for a 100-note lot :)
It was a forgettable coin :)
I'm not familiar with the National Parks quarters-- is this silver round of the same design and size as the genuine Hot Springs quarter? If so,...
This was another acquisition at the show-- a 1945-S Walking Liberty half dollar that I hope will grade at least MS-63
On top of that, a 2 is also known as a "deuce" (as in the "deuce of spades", etc.), but "deuce" can also mean "bad luck"! So 2-dollar bills were...
The Susan B. Anthony dollar carried the P mintmark from its introduction in 1979. The P mintmark was added to all other Philadelphia nickel-alloy...
Unfortunately, that note, which dates from 1988, is "Old Zloty". Inflation ate up the Zloty's value so much that in 1995, the Old Zloty were...
Each of the two regular 1987 Canadian cents in this picture weighs 2.5 grams, which is standard weight of a 1987 Canadian cent. Each of the two...
Thanks. I'm wondering now where I should send it for grading.
You are correct. I was confusing birth years. I thought at first it might have been Chiang Kai-shek on the coin, and looked up his data and saw...
You have a Taiwanese medal apparently put out by the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei to honor the 110th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's birth....
Mercury can be toxic if ingested. Anyway, here is a YouTube video on how to mercury-coat pennies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjkR3ojEfg0
I have a couple of mercury-coated Canadian cents. The mercury on those coins did not rub off on my fingers. The color is a kind of silvery...
My guess is that the coin was coated with mercury, maybe in high school shop or chemistry class. If it has a mercury coating, it will weigh...
This little jewel might have been the best buy at the show:
At least the harp design still beats the stuffing out of the Netherlands designs!
According to Coin World's Coin Values, the 1921 in AU-50 has pretty much held its value since its 2008 high.
My 4th grade teacher had us add up the lunch money every day. She would write the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves and bills on...
Yes, gold and silver are different markets. And while Uncle Sam calculates gold in his reserves as being worth $42.22/ounce, he has to pay a lot...
1848 was a very turbulent year in France (and much of mainland Europe, for that matter). "Citizen King" Louis Philippe had been deposed, and...
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