The Joy of Teaching about Our Hobby! I found this post on "The Joy of Teaching about Our Hobby!" interesting and have nominated it accordingly...
I think we paid about $10 for the set as well. It wasn't on eBay. If you are going to bid on something, be sure to keep the shipping costs in...
A couple of suggestions... 1) Is there a "grownups" coin club in your area? If so, they might already have an auxiliary group for young...
One of the things we like about circulated coins is the history that could be behind them. We'll never know the answer of course, but what if...
Hi all, I wanted to formally introduce you to Martin Gray who has joined CoinTalk at my invitation. I've already been in touch with Peter,...
Hmm, "only" 139 million coins. Not enough for one each per citizen... worse if you collect both P (53 million) and D (86 million). Not exactly...
Summary of my first experience as a real coin dealer I found this post on "Summary of my first experience as a real coin dealer" interesting and...
A non-coin listing I saw this weekend had as its image a tombstone: "RIP eBay"... :D
One of our club members did a presentation on hyperinflation recently and featured this note. He also put one of the smaller denominations up...
Lafayette Dollar--A Numismatic Treasure I found this post on "Lafayette Dollar--A Numismatic Treasure" interesting and have nominated it...
Very nice! A great gift, but especially for someone born in 1935... (that would not be me)
1st year in the " coin biz" I found this post on "1st year in the " coin biz"" interesting and have nominated it accordingly...
As a young teen, and then "reinfected" when our then five-year old daughter showed an interest in Canadian Cents, and the monarch depicted on...
Add the "Penny Black" and that might be it for "stamps on coins"... One of our club members did a talk on "Coins on Stamps" not long ago. We...
In general, the large display ads cost money, and that money has to come from somewhere. It's either making a little less on each item and making...
I tend to define "lower end" as "I can afford it, so it must be" :D There are so many factors involved that I think it's hard to settle on one...
There is a monthly show in Cheektowaga, New York that I've been to a couple of times and may be useful in terms of picking up a lot of BU Lincolns...
At first I thought, only 1 percent? But then I read "profit." That could easily be if the dealer really means "profit" versus "gross margin."...
Not necessarily. Locally, all the dealers know each other quite well and the same ones have consistantly been at the coin shows many times. The...
Interesting that the Royal Mint is issuing a small gold coin (it's small -- two grams!) while the US Mint is giving up on them. I haven't done...
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