There are a lot of we slug collectors having a hoot. While circulation was stripped of anything of much interest back in the mid-'50's and even...
No, Ohio never had metal tax tokens but they had a long line of paper tax receipts which were used right into the 1960's. I've never collected...
Tax tokens are really coins. They were issued for circulation by an official authority and were used as money. The secret service made the...
The first one mentioned will include most of what you have. I first got into world coins because there just weren't enough US coins....
There are a lot of copper nickel coins in the world. Most of these range from about 25% nickel to about 88%. Nickel has to be nearly pure (99%+)...
If you have an interest in tokens and medals you are well advised to join the AVA and The Token and Medal Society. There are several other groups...
"Automobile Washing Tokens" Ford- Coffee (1986). Excellent. comprehensive. Probably easily found. The CTD Pocket Guide Canadian Trade...
This is a good reference but will list very few of the types of tokens in the described accumulation. Old tokens tend to get separated from newer...
OK. But this is going to be a lot of typing (which I hate) so I'll start slowly and see if anyone else lists some. The best general...
<<What most modern haters don't realize is that it's the modern coins that saved the hobby as well. Even before the issuance of the states coins...
Quote: "Your mixing up apples and oranges here. What does finding a roll of 1969 quarters have to do with the value of a 1969 quarter....
There are no good general references unless you just don't have a clue what you have and then there is one that covers everything quite well....
The metals will go up for years. They will have a sharp drop shortly before inflation turns down the second time in about seven years. If we...
"and you don't really know this anyway. There are BILLIONS. Over a Billion were minted in Phillie and Denver in 1999 ALONE with 2 million proofs....
"A Nickel is a waste and the mint has made 1,000,000,000's of them. And the same is largely true of the rest of the modern coins. These are cold,...
The nickel had eroded severely in value by 1983. Indeed, compared to the '39it was worth about one cent. Today it's worth about a third of that....
Of the 1939-D, the most expensive of the three, NGC has graded 535 as MS-65 and PCGS close to 750. The 1942-D, which is about half the price of...
Sounds like an F over an M for FRANKLIN MINT.
Things are much better now than in the old days but many collectors still don't understand the markets. The only way to consistently pay only 10...
The earlier memorials may do extremely well also. These tend to be much more common in BU but gems are very elusive for most of the '70's dates....
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