12/21/24: Round 11 has been posted and is now open. We have only one round remaining in the contest after that.
LET ROUND 11 BEGIN! [ATTACH] @Randy Abercrombie gave to thee... A high grade 1896 silver Morgan dollar with dark grey toning. [ATTACH]...
And now, a brief intermission before we go into Round 11. Time for the "comic relief" portion of the program. You will recall Bean, my...
He's on a roll, for sure! :P
There's 4 days left until Christmas, and we've got two rounds left to do after this one. So... TIME FOR THE ROUND 10 DRAWING! [IMG] Our lucky...
Last call for Round 10, if any of you night owls in the US- or overseas folk elsewhere- have not yet posted your entry in this round. After I...
Wow. I would have loved to be there, and witnessed Roman coins coming out of the ground at Vindolanda, about which I have read. Happily, I did...
A fixed-size collection limited to a certain number of pieces is fun- but an extremely difficult challenge sometimes, because you have to drop one...
Nothin’ wrong with that. I like it when someone is enthusiastic enough about a prize to want it for themselves.
Thanks for the update, Randy.
Yes. The older “UNC/BU” terms certainly have not been completely superseded by the newer “MS” terminology- and neither should they be. They...
“Brilliant Uncirculated” is an older, more general term. I believe “Mint State” came about because it more accurately describes the situation for...
This seems to have been a popular theme!
(Or, if you don’t have a specific list of ten clear-cut goals, then your general plan will do.) Since @Croatian Coin Collector recently posted...
I think I might “go ancient” next year, and do Widow’s Mites or late Roman bronzes. That might give a little thrill to some of the more...
Yes, I made sure they were all full-date coins. Most were 1927 and 1930, though I did see a 1925 and a 1929. Funny, I was so absorbed in the...
We’re all signed up with donors for the first four-week contest in January, but I can pencil you in as donor for Week 2 in the February contest,...
I was wondering what that was next to the “2” on that Peruvian coin, until I recognized it as the Nazca Hummingbird.
This “coworker holiday envelope” thing has been a tradition of mine at work for the past three or four years. I’m the night auditor at an 85-room...
Farthing Halfpenny
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