My other hobby is that I write. It is also my job. As a technical writer, I get paid to write what other people want. I enjoy it. I do it well....
I just picked up two of these: [ATTACH] a 10-inch and an 8-inch from the equipment manager of my local astronomy club. These are about 25 or 30...
Actually, the cause was private competition against the postal system. (See Wikipedia for Lysander Spooner and his American Letter Mail Company....
Actually, upgrading is most often a loss. Do not buy an inferior coin with plans to upgrade it. Hold out and save your money for the coin you...
I did the same thing but with fewer dollars and fewer coins. I bought 100 and sat down with the British Museum Catalog. (My state university had...
I saw it happen to a guy at a local coin club. He had been buying up coins for inventory and got this semi-key Lincoln of some date or other. He...
Oh, you wound me. I was inspired to start the discussion for the benefit of our newbie, NicholasMaximus.
Sure, it is hard enough to avoid them. What is Rome if not the empire; and the empire depended on the military at a level exceding that almost...
It is a classic, published first over 50 years ago as two volumes, Greek and Roman. For decades, it was the standard. Whitman bought the rights...
You do know that you can get paid by the word for this?
Obviously, the word "many" means something different to you than it does to me. Collectors did not even care about mintmarks until a hundred years...
You got a lot of good advice so far. Let me add a word about self-discipline. Don't go gung-ho if you don't know where you are going. And don't go...
I did not compete in your marketplace, but with everything closed and all, I finally realized what I was lacking -- and I bought an unc half eagle...
I am sorry but I have a real problem with the use of the word "official" when it comes to a hobby. Who is the "officer" in charge of enforcing the...
BTW: I would have to dig, but I am pretty sure that I kept some that were also good-fors. That makes those money objects, not just vanities.
The coins are pretty. The design is nice and the Proof (or PL) appearence does it justice. We have had this discussion before. It is not clear...
Some of mine that are "generic" to myself. (I have a bunch of Atlas. My own patron god is Mercury, so I have those, and also Hermes and Thoth.)...
As Circus said, they are worth whatever someone else wants to pay for them. You mean that you did not realize that they have historical context,...
New addition: Jane Austen. [ATTACH] and HRH on the face, of course: [ATTACH] It was soon pointed out that the quote, "I declare after all...
I also have some as examples of exonumia. They are wonderful celebrations of much that is American culture: film, books, holidays, heroes, myths...
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