Sales tax is irrelevent to the existence of the cent or any coin. If you buy an item for one cent (yeah right) you don't pay a one twentieth...
This is the problem in a nutshell; as long as we have lobbyists distributing money for votes we won't have common sense.
It might just have an impact on your hobby in twenty years when there's no new generation of collectors. Having an obsolete coinage system is...
No matter what you make it out of it remains a drag on commerce. The problem isn't that metal is too expensive or plastic is too expensive the...
You do realize there need be no price increase whatsoever caused by this? Prices are simply rounded to the nearest nickel and taxes kick in...
It cost about a penny more than it's worth to make one. Then everytime it gets used at costs about half a cent of wasted time and effort plus...
Thanks for the info. I'm still getting used to the ability to just google things related to tokens and medals. I collected telephone tokens...
It's a stock amusement token. It's not especially uncommon.
You can find tons of silver in junk boxes. You can also find high denomination coins for next to nothing like the Japan 100 Y which are wort...
The lowest possible price isn't the price that defines value. If you offer the 1804 dollar to a motel silver buyer the offer doesn't magically...
Actually this is a very impressive collection. All the later dates are probably pretty easy and always will be but some of those early dates are...
Thanks for the link. You're missing the point. They aren't selling 1924 or 1959 Danish Krones by the thousand or even a single piece. You...
You can see this effect in countries all over the world if you just look. The Danish silver Krones had mintages as low as 992,000 and have...
We're referring specifically to circulating coins. These are not medals or NCLT but actual coins that are used for decades up to three quarters...
World coins are a hoot but the big growth is being caused by domestic demand; people in that country are buying their coins back from the US...
There are only two or three of the '75 No-S proof dimes known and the last one sold about $50,000 I believe. (this might just be an estimated...
I saw that thread the other day calling foreign coins worthless as well and never got around to responding to it. I even went back looking for it...
A lot of the '69 (and '68) mint sets are getting pretty bad now days. Even the 1970's and 1984 are starting to go. Most of the Ike years have a...
What makes it a big deal to me is that usually very high percentages of the old coins will be redeemed and those old coins are destroyed. In many...
The '72-P used to be a much better date and is still a better date. There just weren't as many as these set aside as most. People generally...
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