As the saying goes, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Let's look at some coins! Post a coin from your birth year. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A Dutch collector of space and astronomy themed coins from around the world has created a catalogue of these coins. Here's a link......
Here's a raw 1954 S Lincoln I got several years ago. I'm not a serious collector of Lincolns, but when they look like this I'm happy to buy them....
400 Years ago today, November 11, 1620, the Mayflower first landed in Massachusetts (see correction in next post). It landed at Cape Cod. Post a...
Youths volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel have found 425 gold coins that had lain buried in a clay jar for 1,100 years....
Well, actually, out here in CA. it's brown, but still... It's the summer and the leaves are on the trees, post something green... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will be the design on the Maryland entry for the US Innovation $1 program. It actually appears to be a decent...
Here are the designs for the Christa McAuliffe $1 Commemorative Coin. I think it's a real shame that the rest of the astronauts aboard the...
Given that today is May 8, post a coin with a 58 in the date... any century, particularly those BC. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here are the 1963 PD Washingtons for my A toner Dansco. Please remember I started this raw Washingtons for Dansco(s) collecting AFTER I had...
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 13 was coasting from the Earth to the Moon. The crew; Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, had just finished a TV...
I couldn't believe it when I saw a link to an article titled, "What is a PDS tornado watch?" The coin collector in me was going, of course it's a...
Something to be aware of. According to The Lancet Microbe, Covid 19 has a radically longer lifespan on paper money than on "regular" paper. For...
Here are the 1963 PD Washingtons for my B toner Dansco. The images were done by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job. [ATTACH]...
I was intrigued to see this in CNN's Style section. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/buffalo-nickels-coins/index.html
75 Years ago today was the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the biggest, deadliest battle the US fought in World War II. The US suffered...
Here are the 1962 PD Washingtons for my A toner Dansco. The D was imaged by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job. [ATTACH]...
Here are the 1962 PD Washingtons for my B toner Dansco album. The images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job. As with all...
Definitely not my cup of tea, but here's yet another unnecessary commemorative with an unattractive design coming our way. IMO if they were going...
Here are the 1961 PD Washingtons for my A toner Dansco album. There is something very fulfilling about putting a coin that you like in a hole in...
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