THOSE were the good old days!
Hi, guys -- I know some of the veteran collectors here remember the old days (and prices even lower than the ones I list below), but for the...
No kidding...I don't read much about artificially toning coins, but years ago I came across something about using butter with the potato. Corn...
Alex, there are people who have actually baked coins in potatoes, with butter, and have obtained all kinds of colors on their coins! :rolling:...
Congrats! :-)
When I was a young collector, I toned a cleaned large cent on a light bulb to some good effect, but I DID tell the coin shop I later sold the coin...
I bought 7 rolls of halves today....No Franklins or Walkers, but I did find 4 '64s, 1 '65, 2 67s, and 2 '68s.
Rolls are a fine way to store junk silver coins -- just make sure they are hard plastic tubes, which you can buy from any coin dealer for 50 cents...
Nice finds, Fools Gold. Andrew has some good advice....Decide on a budget and start saving toward silver rolls. I'm not offering any investment...
Oh, and do be sure to check out http://www.coinflation.com/ . There, you can actually determine how much bullion value your coin has based on...
Hi, Foolsgold, Actually, pre-1965 dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars are 90% silver. In 1965, the U.S. Mint took all silver out of...
Personally, I would just buy circulated silver -- "junk" type. BUT, I would aim for obsolete type (Mercury, early Washingtons, Walkers and...
I completed an XF+ 20th century type set, housed in a white Capital holder. For this, I wound up buying a 1911 AU-55 Liberty nickel in a SEGS,...
I went to my first show in Florida when I was 12. I did not have much money either, but I walked away with a few inexpensive treasures (one I...
1981 here; but we still had disco on the Top 40, inflation, auto prices under $10,000, no cell phones yet, and "M*A*S*H" on TV....Does that count? ;)
"I believe that is what they were designed for....melt value...being a bullion coin." -Desert Gem True....I guess I was referring to the fact...
Schroeder, I guess it all comes to the "hypothetical nature" that a bullion coin "could circulate, just as proof coins have been found in...
Thanks, Green.
Sorry, but that is MS 64 at best. :confused:
I never got into the "high-end" mint state coins because I am well aware of how the grading standards have changed over the years and wonder if...
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