I bought, at melt, some Philippine coins from the mid 1940s that were dark and illegible without a loupe. I rinsed them in acetone for 30 seconds...
[ATTACH] Part of the set I just bought.
Clifton is 95 minutes each way, and I've got a local coin club meeting at 1:00 too, so I'm staying local. BUT, there is a colonial copper dealer...
[ATTACH] I recently picked these up b/c one of the stores weighs and sells by weight, so I didn't have to worry about paying the $20+ dealers...
The more I learn the more I realize how much I have yet to learn.
I have a few, but do I file these under F or P?
Noice
1937 proof set.
I didn't see a way to edit my post, but here is what I got. I started getting lazy with the dates and country names: 8 - 2.5 Guiders 1960 x3,...
Yeah, there's a local store by work that sells this stuff for melt value. I had previously picked up a few Swiss 1, 2 & 5 Francs. Someone else...
Picked these up today
I want my two dollars.
I haven't sold anything coin related, yet. I've used similar approaches. My experience is that most of the time I'm offered a lower price,...
I started collecting clad Ikes. I saw this article; https://coinweek.com/us-coins/when-dealing-with-eisenhower-dollars-grade-is-everything/ and...
I saw several double eagles, several eagles, lots of quarter eagles. Raw and graded. I would say 20 to 25 dealers. Not too many ancients. One...
Just got back, didn't stay for the ASE giveaway. Show was busier than normal. I picked up a cartwheel, so I can check that off my list. I found...
E - All the above.
I went 66 too. I feel that there are several small contact marks, the neck and in front of the ear, and don't see any hairlines.
Ha, ha, sorry, I saw the coin, very nice. I was, feebly, attempting to joke that when you wrote you gave the teller a dollar bill, that the...
It was a silver certificate then?
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