I'd like to earn a little money. I'm sixty-one years old and don't want to wait till I'm seventy to retire. I think it's a pretty good book. I've...
I've only got fifty pages so far, and a lot of that is pictures of my own coins. Can you think of anything in particular I should write about?
No, I just wanted to get some idea what sort of competition I will have when I go to get my book published.
I like the ANA book of grading standards. I'm writing a short book about collecting coins. It will help people avoid a few mistakes.
I'm writing one. You gonna buy it?
Oh?
Are there any good books, besides the Red Book, about coin collecting?
What do they use to grade their coins?
Red Book can't cover every single coin ever minted. It still might be a trustworthy guide for average coins.
Perhaps anytime you specialize in a particular coin, you discover things the Red Book doesn't cover.
What sorts of VAM premiums are you referring to?
Yes, bring back the old coins. Politicians on coins should be banned forever.
That's amazing. I rarely see a 50-cent piece here in Reno, and hate it when I do, though I'd be pleased to see a Franklin, or better yet, a...
I thought red book prices were considered low. It seems to me coins in coin shops are more often than not above red book prices.
I seem to remember reading that for some reason, they wanted to get a lot of coins into circulation back in the time around the Civil War. Nickel...
So you remember the buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, standing liberty quarters, walking liberty halves, and silver dollars.
So there's two of us.
Okay. Thanks.
I don't think it was until recently that they started putting mint marks on Philadelphia coins.
Are there any standards besides ANA?
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