The museum is in the Tower of London and is dedicated to the history of the Royal Fusiliers Regiment. The regiment was begun in 1685 by James II...
Visited the museum and couldn’t resist the penny press machine … especially, we were with friends who had their 4 year old boy along. Did one for...
Yesterday and today, we visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It’s a huge museum devoted mostly to art and history. Among other items, it has a...
Visited the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales today. What a great experience it was! Started with Google leading my wife and me to the security...
Was in the museum a few days ago. Spotted some Celtic gold coins. Can read the description in the picture. There were also some Roman silver...
Visited the Salisbury Cathedral yesterday in England. It’s the most impressive cathedral I’ve seen, and I’ve seen many in the British Isles and...
Got a strange notice that PCGS is retiring my old customer number at the end of the year and have stated what the new one will be. Old one was 6...
PCGS: Suppose the cert. no. is xxxxxxxx. One way to do it is to type pcgs.com in the URL box of your browser and press enter, click on Verify,...
Was there only Wed and Thu. Didn’t buy any coins. I rarely buy at shows these days but look at auction lots and sometimes contact a dealer after...
Several members have already said they’ll be there. Anyone else? I’d like to meet some members in the flesh for a chat or coffee or maybe lunch....
There’s a 1891-CC Morgan up for auction on Great Collections in a PCGS Bee Frame holder. The link is below. I have no interest in this coin as...
Longtime subscriber. First to paper edition; now to digital. Tried to logon yesterday. Get message website is down for work. Tried today....
There is an interesting article in the 23 June issue of Coin World about the RMS Republic salvage efforts. The ship sank in January 1909 off...
The SS Central America sank off the coast of South Carolina in 1857. It carried a huge amount of California gold, much of it in the form of...
I know Turin is a city in Italy, and it was under French rule in the early 19th century. There was French mint there for a while. However, I...
By best, I mean a combination of quality and completeness of a particular issue. Considering all sets, I’m not sure. For some sets, like CC...
Recently there was a thread on possible insecurities in posting slab pics with the label visible. However, you may be posting data about yourself...
Curious whether anyone in the U.S. has had to pay the new tariff on a coin from outside the U.S. If so, how much was it and how was it collected?...
The florin coin pictured below is up for auction by Galleria in Japan. It’s part of series of beautiful patterns designed by Wyon and produced...
You know why. One of mine pictured below is a 2013 commem for JFK. Cal [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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