I do not begrudge anybody's coin interests. That isn't what this is about. I am seeking understanding.... I receive a Great Collections email...
Winter of 1865 General Sherman camped on the Broad River directly behind my old office and lobbed artillery at our states capitol. Many of the...
My Whitman/Dansco collections are in a floor safe that I never get into because my knees are wrecked. My Merc dime collection is a book almost as...
I am not a dedicated error collector, but the 55 DD cent was a childhood dream coin of mine so I now own the specimen below and I like to fully...
I clearly remember the moment that I became a coin collector. It was when I was shuffling off to grade school and my mom handed me a Franklin half...
So I thought I might dig way back in my safe and pull out my Apollo 11 five ounce hockey puck. I hadn’t looked at it for a long time and how can...
In another thread @Inspector43 made reference to an establishment painting a red spot on coins going into a jukebox or pool table as "seed" money...
I been on a self imposed hiatus from buying coins because I have, shall we say "overindulged" of late.... But I keep getting emails with awesome...
My background is US coins where manipulation of a coin’s surface is a serious taboo…… Some years back I purchased this Chi-Rho specifically to...
Early American Copper.... Not a coin collector alive that doesn't have a soft spot for EAC.... I have never heard it defined and always figured in...
I love my 1795 dollar below. Today I received the newest Heritage auction in my email that includes the 1795 half dollar and 1795 half dime below....
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I don’t sell coins so I am very much a rookie at this. My proverbial cup overfloweth and this is a duplicate set for me….. A full 56 coin set of...
Now that I am paying attention, I see more and more 18th century pieces with graffiti scratched into them. I have even noticed lately that...
I am on day three (I think) of recovery from a particularly nasty onset of the virus. And being in isolation for five days seemed a good time to...
I know we have memorialized Grant on the fifty dollar bill, the Presidential dollar coins and a 1922 commemorative half dollar. Has Grant appeared...
I was a transplanted southerner. The US Army dropped me off here in 1983. I loved the warmth and openly polite nature of the southern folks and...
I managed to turn my grandson into a coin crazed lunatic. Now he has turned my great grandson (his nephew) into a mini coin junkie. He has saved...
I don’t think I have seen them discussed here. I see the polished TV commercials for them all the time. I rather suspect they are playing on...
I don’t collect the Buffalo nickel series. Not because I don’t like the series. I do like it… I have a mental block attempting to grade the...
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