Yeah, after you get those scales, you may need to buy a calibration weight, if you don't already have one.
If anything, I'd say the auction house pics look juiced. I mean, they probably have better lighting and such, but it's just vibrant in those...
The reverse of the walking liberty half is dreadful, in my opinion. Probably the worst eagle on an American coin. The walking liberty design is...
As a seller on ebay (I haven't sold much, 20-30 items), I only had one bad experience and it was my fault, kind of. I had to give a refund and...
The coins are probably stolen. Maybe I'm just skeptical. But it's true, there could be a "faux mugging" racket, I dunno. Seems to be some...
Looks to me like PMD. Laying in motor oil, or something. Of course, I don't really know though.
welcome. I'm from MI too, where's "T-Town Beat Down?" Troy? Traverse City? also, Pennyguy: I used to live in jackson. small world.
I'd do an auction on ebay. It'll go for $30+.
For melt value, you're looking at what, 25x, 26x face? In that ballpark. You may get more I suppose. But I agree with Bannon, list em and let...
There's 2600 sold, so there's a lot of folks buying it. I think it's the idea of "maybe, just maybe, I'll find a valuable coin..." With these...
In high school chemistry class, we did an experiment where we removed the copper layer from a zinc cent. The teacher did this with all her...
Look at these two auctions:...
I started getting into collecting when silver was trading around $5/oz, in 2003 or so, I think. One of my first coins was also a 1964 (P or D,...
Yeah, I'm sure its real. I don't have my redbook so I don't know the mintage, but that's pretty circulated. Still, if it's more of a key date,...
I thought this link might be relevant. Looks like you got a good deal on the Ike, according to this!...
So the bills were in the dresser? That's a solid find if you were going to buy the dresser anyway. Probably even if you weren't.
I'd like to see what the edge looks like.
Here ya go! Just went to visit our forefathers and took this photo! (Only kidding) [ATTACH] I know you asked for monticello, but I figured I'd...
I think somebody was doing target practice with a BB gun. Probably trying to reenact the Lincoln assassination, but he apparently just missed...
Damn, 800! Did you buy em all? Getting 10% on your money at a coin dealer, which about what they'd pay (I think) seems like a pretty good return...
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