My mother gave me a Franklin half to buy my lunch with at school when I was a kid. That started my coin collecting journey. I spent years...
I think you made a fair gamble. The Chinese know that errors are the hot ticket in American numismatics so they do produce a lot of them. It could...
Heck…. If you are 25 years old, take a break and chase girls…… No wait. Forget I said that. You will be too broke to buy anymore coins if you do...
Very very perfectly put.
Well.... According to your profile, you are still a young man. I was twice your age before I could remotely consider coins like you are showing...
I wanted to reply to the thread so I could follow what the guys that read diagnostics say. I would be surprised if this one isn't an 18/17.
God bless you my friend. There is a special kind of reward that comes from bringing kids into the family. My wife and I in a moment of senility...
Holy smokes. I haven’t looked at the charts in a couple weeks. We are currently at $1768.00….. When did we tank?
That note looks like it was printed yesterday. Absolutely spectacular.
Welcome to CT……. Man, as a kid I was a terrible offender of shining cents with my pencil eraser. While it most certainly will make an old cent...
I got in trouble patting my wife’s doppelgänger on the bottom once…. Well, it was her exact doppelgänger from the reverse anyways…..
Glad I made this thread. I had entirely forgotten that I had some Continental currency hidden in the safe. Both notes are dated 1776……. My LCS...
Wow. She is sweet!
What an exemplary lesson in true humility and leadership.
Fine by me. I just like to come up with excuses to see peoples coins.
We have a three day holiday weekend. Let’s celebrate the birth of a nation the best way we know how. By posting your colonial, post colonial and...
That is a genuine Texas cent..... You take any cent minted after 1982... Lay it between a piece of leather and give it a couple of solid whacks...
Trying to remember my three cent coins. Been a while since I was working them... I think that year was proof only. It does need to be in a slab if...
You amaze me with your knowledge of this stuff, Paddy.
Our own @lordmarcovan was traveling through and stopped by my place today. We oogled coins together and I just had to talk him out of this one. I...
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