Thanks for the info, satootoko, I appreciate your time to look that one up. I don't know much about South American gold coins, but this one...
My knowledge of Arabic is rudimentary, but since this thread has been here all day I will give it a shot. The caption below the coin refers to...
Just wondering what anyone here thinks this coin might be worth. It is a 20 Bolivar gold coin from Venezuela, 6.45g Au, 1912. Attached some...
I recently bought my 5 year old daughter a State Quarters map where you put the quarter in the state. We went through all the change in the house...
I finally located a bank that just happened to have 20 rolls of halves (I tried about 10 banks), they were all marked with a date scrawled in pen...
I look at my own hands after going through 10 rolls of lincolns and try to imagine the vast assortment of germs I host...
Don't give up, check 'em till the bitter end
I understand how it seems like cheating that someone else may be using a sniping service. It happened with the first coin I bidded for and I...
Isn't that the truth? When I started with coins in 1978, $20 was a big spending decision, now look what it gets!
Thanks again Clinker, I always look forward to your trivia postings.
Started checking rolls again about two months ago. Here are the stats so far: Cents: 604 rolls checked (30,200 coins) yielded a total of 100...
I was not speaking seriously on that detail:whistle:. Only that its interesting how people react to seemingly innocuous details about coins. The...
I know the answer to this! The designer's initials, JS (John Sinnock) which are located to the left of the date, were initially rumored to stand...
These guys must be related... http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=18570
1852 Large Cent. Its quite lonely, hopefully not for too much longer.
10 chickens, 2 roosters
Currently I am most interested in Barber dimes, Capped Bust half dimes, 3 cent silvers, 3 cent nickels, and Standing Liberty Quarters.
Those are great coins, that merc dime looks at least VF if not EF.
Sulfur and oxygen from the paper (or from the air) generate sulfides and oxides that convert the pure metal on the coin surface. This is the...
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