If my business were as a coin dealer, I would absolutely be furious that my cash was tied up for ninety days. This shouldn’t have to be tolerated....
I will pray for a Christmas miracle for you.
I have heard of guys leaving cleaned coins on their window ledge exposed to the sunlight and having the coin develop an acceptable “skin”…. I have...
Hey Top…. Just addressing the “finding in the wild” part of your question…… For fifty years I collected old coins and never gave a second thought...
Do you get any respect now that you have a new avatar?
That is solid. I much like!
I had to read that three times…. LOL
A lamination is when the planchet is defective and often a sliver of the surface will lift away. They are very common on war nickels.
Yeah…. Probably a high school experiment. They still look unusual enough to be eye catching.
Very cool. I don’t know the background but it appears you have been the recipient of a silver bugs collection. Very much up my alley….. As far as...
The lady I work with brought me her coins a while back to give her an idea of what she has.... One coin is a 1916 Mercury dime and it too has a...
Oh jeez mountainman….. You are a fortunate man to have walked away from that!
I did some construction work on several historic buildings in my city. It was made abundantly clear to me that any artifacts that turned up during...
I helped to renovate that old Keating & Ball building. I had just started my business and my office was in its own historic building less than a...
I can't wait to see what they find inside.
I second the motion to pick up a Redbook. It is the easiest to use resource book we coin collectors have. And they aren't expensive at all.
That does make a darn good looking set. I always thought the Kennedy half was a very inspired design.... I am like you. I want my sets to be...
The only 50's era coinage that I have at my office resides in this Lucite block.... Though rumor has it that these coins were found under the seat...
God bless our granddads. My grandad was key to getting me head over heels in love with old coins fifty years ago. I would like to address that...
Exactly the thought that went through my brain.
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