I put a set of those big 20 Balboas a while back and I still have it somewhere. Dansco even made an album for them although the weight is beating...
I have dozens of those folders from taking the coins out over the decades.
Those are glued packs. I make them now and again just for kicks. Most people no longer even smile when you peel off a few so I stopped and moved...
Commodity Weather Group.
Not to hijack this thread but my son has been a weather-nut since he was two years old. He graduated Penn State's Meteorological College and...
Yes. Every time we drove by it, my father would tell me the story..... I have since read everything I could find about it and even considered...
Mine is an old postcard showing my paternal grandparents.
I'm afraid to go to Austin. The dam might break again! Am I going to get edited for using the word "dam" too?
Punxsutawney
StrikeoutXXX That is the very coin I was referring to in my post above!
Been here all my life. Lots of old time collections still to be found around here.
The 1881 S Morgans were certainly the height of the minters skill and beauty.
I just acquired one with the flaw going the whole way into Kennedy's head. That is definitely a ragged edge planchet defect. Mine came from a...
Agree. Struck through. Rim is too defined for a "start-up" strike. What we used to call a "filled Die".
That is about as misaligned as I have ever seen for any pair of coin dies save ancients, of course. No, it's not an off-center strike and is a...
XF. And it looks good to me but I would slab it for sure for many reasons.
No one keeps coins forever. Own it and enjoy it until opportunity and desire combine for a sell.
To me, a partial collar and the colorful nickname "railroad rim" are one and the same. A partial collar has the railroad rim edge only partway...
There have been mountains of those plated with gold, silver and platinum. Spend it.
I think you did OK. I would have been a little under that amount but close.
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