Thanks for the comments, everyone. What partially inspired this was reading the "American Presidents" series, which covers all of the presidents...
I'm pretty confident that I'm not the first person to do this, but I have been reading up on the US presidents for a while now and the thought...
Sometimes I really don't understand this hobby.
I didn't know that the mint struck that type in Mercury...
If you can't use PowerPoint do you have access to an overhead projector or some way to project images? I can't imagine giving a talk on coins,...
I listened to an introductory lecture by PCGS on grading and the presenter said that, like most aesthetic judgements, eye appeal remains mostly a...
I'm not surprised and I knew the odds were low, but some of the pictures I saw left me wanting to verify just in case one of those one in a...
I know the odds are very slim, but I just want to make sure that I have a 1917 and not a 1916 SLQ. It's definitely a Type I, with no mint mark,...
No one knows the future, of course, and extrapolating from the past to the future doesn't always work out how one expects. Such future projected...
^ BIG POINTS FOR THE RANDY NEWMAN REFERENCE!!! I found out much later that when I started out I had bought more than a few cleaned coins. Some...
I have yet to meet anyone face to face, family or not, who shows the slightest interest in this hobby (outside of coin shows or coin events, of...
I am so happy that people still find silver in circulation - I haven't seen any in years upon years upon years... nice find and congrats for the...
Thank you, that gives me something to go on, at least. I actually agree with you on many things. For one, I think that the TPGs provide a...
Yes, I do have the O/F variety as you pointed out (closeup below from a USB scope). Now I also know what the "B-1" on the NGC slab refers to. I'm...
My experience with coins in antique shops is that they tend to be quite overpriced. This experience became so generalized that I really don't look...
This 1834 bust quarter of mine, purchased at a local show, has a grade of VF 25, but the one posted above, graded F 15, seems to look a little...
I'm NEVER wrong when I'm sleeping, eating or using the bathroom. Those are the times when my confidence that I know exactly what I'm doing is...
1942-D Mercury Dime graded MS 67 FB by NGC with CAC green sticker. [IMG] [IMG]
Yes, but not only that, his opinion is very easy to dismiss and to completely ignore because it provides no evidence or arguments whatsoever.
Electronic transactions are much faster than they used to be and they will get faster. I personally don't experience many slow transactions these...
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