What a great concept. I got on a war nickel kick last year and put this little set together. Ended up looking right nice. [ATTACH]
Just an offhand thought. Does the mint do any sort of rinse of these coins destined to go in mint sets? I don’t know and have never given it any...
Holy crud!!! Are the Chinese selling Morgan dies now?
Heck yeah man! I bet this cartoon would go over the heads of a middle schoolers social studies learning. I loved these silly old cartoons but they...
I am with @ldhair on this one. I got lucky when I purchased gold in the late 1990's. I got very unlucky when I purchased silver in the early...
Never could warm up to these... I was overseas in the Army when these were issued. Nobody stateside wanted them so they sent them all overseas to...
Back when they had the Great American Coin Hunt, I went and deposited pieces like this at school entryways and the like. I even deposited a few in...
I loathe a crook.
Back a half century ago when I started collecting, finding a wheat cent in the wild was a magical moment. Still is, really….. I think if I would...
@Cheech9712 ….. You have my permission to use the coin as your icon.
You GO girl!
Dang. That is rather blatant. Hey Mountain Man! Good to see ya.
Well.. It's much like with the current zinc cents. Zinc deteriorates quite readily. Unless a steel cent was kept in fairly stable conditions, it...
I'll offer this. I wouldn't use wax on an undamaged coin. I agree with others that say the wax can seal in corrosive properties. For a dug piece...
Well ….. The dog won the contest. Though she never did tell me if it was genuine or not! [IMG]
Heck... My dog eats gold rare.
I wondered that at first too but I am betting it is more a display of Royal counterstamps than it is a display of coins.... But man, those are...
Well how cool is that!?!
LordM... When I was trying to find some sort of attribution for my cobb, it was made apparent that an eight real was sized close to a dollar, four...
There is one dealer on EBay. Every coin he has looks like this. I pull up his offerings occasionally just to gawk at the photos. Stunning really.
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