A Meiji-era Japanese 20 Yen gold piece... a beautiful thing... with a beautiful price... [IMG] Prices for the most affordable date in the best...
I've experienced an absolute continuum of dealer dispositions. From the nicest people I've ever met to the biggest jerks one could ever imagine....
Wow. Did anyone care at the time about the cereal boxed coins? The Sacajawea dollars were so unpopular that one episode of "The Simpsons" included...
Sorry if this is completely irrelevant, but it's the closest equivalent I know. Monnaie de Paris struck a pretty cool commemorative series called...
I agree that nothing ever, or at least rarely, changes and I second your distrust of "the common wisdom." Things will likely go in cycles as you...
I often read "Brilliant Uncirculated" these days as "good enough for anyone who doesn't know any better."
Mint sets are fun. But, like others have said, probably not a great vehicle for future profit. For a while the state quarters series saw a major...
I went to exactly ONE last year. But considering how many I went to over the preceding decade, 2015 was one for the record books. Of course I also...
Slightly off-topic, below are clips from "Freaks & Errors," a Kickstater-funded documentary that apparently wants to attempt to make stamps "cool"...
I came across this old ANACS graded Buffalo nickel in a local shop recently and found it interesting enough to buy (I also happened to want a...
Among the first batch of smart cards available, COIN works with mobile phones and allows scanning of multiple credit cards. Though the review...
There are some very interesting things there. Nice little inheritance. It looks like many of them are fairly well labeled. According to the Red...
Heh... by the title of this thread I thought you meant the value of the actual metal and I was all ready to say "about $0.041617." :p
I like to carry a silver dollar in my chest pocket. That way if I ever get shot in the heart I'll leave behind an interesting conversation...
Sweden and Denmark are already well on the way to cashless societies. Whether the rest of the world follows them remains an open question. I...
Wow! It's the RARE-est die variation of all! A non-incuse $2.5 Indian! Whoa-EE!!! No wonder it's no longer available... he wants to donate it to a...
Wow... there never seem to be shows of that caliber in my area... but I can always envy others at a distance. Very nice pics and very nice lot!
I buy some bullion on the side once in a while and then lock it away because I don't really need to look at it once it's purchased (maybe I'll...
No experience whatsoever with that group.
The series lost its luster long ago - which goes doubly true, both figuratively and literally, for the Presidential dollars. So pun only slightly...
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