I hate to ruin your track record, but when it comes to $500,000 and up coins, I think you are right. Check out...
Several years ago I received a package of BEP intaglio currency reprints that was still soaking wet. The post office said I had the option of...
JAY-AR: I suspect you are more likely to be right than me. Still hoping there is someone out there who knows exactly what it is. Either way,...
Really interesting item. I hope someone out there actually knows what it is, because all I can do is make an educated guess. First, I don't see...
They are listed in both the Friedberg currency catalog and the Scott's US specialized stamp catalog - my 2016 Scott's has nice pictures, showing...
[ATTACH] It's from the Lewis and Clark set, not the Buffalo set. I bough this several years ago for under $20, just to get the error slab....
This is mostly from memory, so might not be 100% correct: I started buying gold and checking out precious metal statistics in the mid-1950's. [My...
Your speculation that it could have been re-purposed as a local currency is certainly possible; it would not be the first time that worthless...
Here is an image of a typical bond. [I chose it because it is a bank bond - and it fit on my scanner.] The coupons are a little less elaborate...
It's probably a bond coupon. The "Dividendo No 49" sort of hints at that. [It could be some sort of stock with the dividends paid by coupon, but I...
There is an outfit called NOMOROBO that can determine if you are getting a robocall, and after one ring it cuts them off. So once or twice a day...
I used Turbo-tax to do my NC taxes; the use tax "safe harbor" number it came up with was less than ONE-TENTH of one percent of my gross income....
Actually, even Milton Friedman, not exactly a leftwing economist, thinks it might have been better to go on the silver standard rather than the...
The 17.5 % or 20 % doesn't bother me; as others have pointed out, you can just do a little math and reduce your bid to allow for the buyer's fee....
A while back Superior sold a multi-million dollar collection. The contract's wording said something to the effect of no charge to the seller. The...
North Carolina [despite all the other ways the legislature has screwed up] has a very reasonable solution to sales tax on out-of-state purchases....
Seems strange that the prints on India paper laid up on card stock are cheaper than just on India paper alone - maybe the extra care needed to...
I think people in the "middle class" [defined as at least two-thirds of median income, but less that 150% of median income] are the major buyers...
Related story I just have to tell. Back in the 40's and 50's, "Mr. Phil" [full name Philpott - I don't remember his first name, everyone just...
[IMG] [ATTACH] It looks like all the currency stuff at the Smithsonian site has been completed. But I think I finally figured out how to add an...
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