Well…. I don’t feel quite so bad about my childhood obsession with cents and pencil erasers now.
Cobs are hard to put a value on. I have one that I picked up on the coast after a hurricane. Beautiful piece and I estimate mine is maybe a...
Oh yeah. Each Christmas I get a lovely slabbed Mezack ASE from my mom…. I don’t have the heart to tell her that she paid too much.
I sure hope so. I was so taken with the bicentennial coinage when I was a pimple faced teen. I’m glad to see folks starting to pay attention to them.
Amazing the things people did to spend time before we all carried gadgets in our hands.
I love the write up and am seriously fascinated with your collection. Something magical about colonial era America. My life long bucket list coin...
Me too... Ever since I was a kid holding an old coin in my hand, I could build a whole story in my mind about that coin. A steel cent that stormed...
I am a big fan of coins like this. Some of my finest pieces are coins with minor imperfections noted indelibly by a TPG label, snubbed by refined...
I went to the bookstore just last week to get the ANA grading book. The bookstore had a nice coin section actually…. But it was dominated by...
I really don't know why I open these threads. As a businessman, I am the most meticulous record keeper alive.... As a hobbyist, not only do I keep...
I have seen the sort of thing you are talking about.... When I got here in the early 1980's you didn't want to go downtown. The entire city center...
I was a transplanted southerner. The US Army dropped me off here in 1983. I loved the warmth and openly polite nature of the southern folks and...
I love seeing a kids face light up like that when he looks at an old coin. I'll never get tired of seeing wonderment like that in a kids face......
Of course. They live halfway across the country from me. I have a very good relationship with a very nice lady that runs a first class coin shop...
I thought I was a brilliant somebody when I found that a pencil eraser would make and old cent bright and shiny. I apologize to anyone that ended...
I managed to turn my grandson into a coin crazed lunatic. Now he has turned my great grandson (his nephew) into a mini coin junkie. He has saved...
She is a luster bomb if the photographs are truly representative. I think it is a steal at $510.00.
Ya think?.... And not even a good fake.
Well dang... I wanted to hear the rest of the joke!
That is a spectacular coin.
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