Hello Steven. Many a coin collector were born this way. I would value that piece as priceless myself. Take your son for a drive to the local coin...
CC…. Better plan that trip for late fall/early spring. Summer in the south is miserable….. But stop and say howdy when you are down around these...
They sent them all overseas to pay us soldiers with. Wasn’t very much fun drawing out forty bucks for a night on the town and your pockets felt...
It is simply a matter of cash register drawers. The typical drawer has a space for ones, fives, tens and twenties. Hence why a cashier is...
that made me laugh out loud. I am a big fan too! Thanks Dave.
You should be writing American history books for the schools, @johnmilton !
I did a little local auction last week. I put a twenty dollar bid on this one and won it for thirteen. Thought it was a fun little win, but I...
Even being in a sealed capsule, these coins are banged out of a die and ejected into piles faster than you can imagine. It's entirely possible...
Well….. I believe that it is a pretty fair assumption that the US mint recognizes that us collectors tend to be an OCD leaning crowd and when we...
A full house.... And then some!
Well.... I suppose I am more of a purist. I don't believe you can overpay to hold history in your hands. Yes, intrinsically that was a bit too...
To me, this one is something of an anomaly. I know that the mint struggled with the nickel composition when they introduced it, so based on that I...
I was thinking more along the lines of passing as nickels concealed in a roll of nickels.
Yep... Texas cent.... Take a cent and lay it between a coupla pieces of leather and bang on it with a hammer. The layer of copper falls away and...
I heard those spend really well at the girlie joints.... I heard that... No, really... That's what I heard....
She would have been lovely if she hadn't been polished. Sadly, that appears to now be a damaged formerly very nice piece.
Sorry, but coins are very seldom a get rich quick vehicle.
Mimi… I had a small windfall in the late 90’s. I bought gold because I was a coin collector that had never been able to afford gold before. I got...
Yeah…. That whole “L in the rim” thing is nothing more than the product of an overworked die….. And wishful thinking by EBay marketers.
The great things about coins like this is that all the history that coin represents is there for you to hold and be in awe of…. But there is very...
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