Well, the wire rim gives me pause right out of the gate.
Not in Houston, but I see this behavior at my local shows all the time. It's as if they are daring you to do business with them. At the last...
Thanks for the correction, Bill.
Each coin is struck from a set of unique obverse and reverse dies. "N" refers to Noyes, who published maybe the first definitive book on the die...
Still hard to tell. I arrowed what I think are the signs of RPD. The only one I feel pretty confident about is the inside the lower loop of the...
That $50 Buffalo reminds of a couple of years ago when I was playing golf solo and the starter teamed me up with a threesome. On the second...
I'm going with 63.
I just made a basic template in Excel and create new files customized for any new series I'm collecting. I didn't see any need for the added...
I have read that during the Civil War, when postage stamps were 3 Cents, families of soldiers going to war would hole 3 cent pieces and then sew...
The best I can do is S-25 for the 1899.
Thanks, @Insider . I appreciate the education.
Prompted by a member's note on another thread indicating that his LCS did not display many coins: Before the pandemic, when I was regularly...
I checked my 3rd edition of Snow's book and your coin certainly looks like FS-001 to me. Nice find!
That is an interesting question. I have looked at many coins, and have purchased a few, in top TPG slabs that I believed would have profited from...
64.
Why would you? Not all habits are bad.
A couple of years ago I went all over the Internet looking for stainless steel staples and the only ones I could find were industrial construction...
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It is clear from your question that you aren't familiar with the coin collecting hobby and its terminology. So, in order for us to help you, it...
Your question is a bit ambiguous so let me answer the most literal part of the question first: "Where did the MINT get the gold and silver to...
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