I have already recommended this thread to dollar collectors in Sweden and Australia!
This is a pristine, fresh, near-mint copy of Q. David Bowers' 1983 book, "Virgil Brand: The Man and His Era," hardbound, 246 pages, size 8½ x 11....
Virgil Brand, a quirky American industrialist, had a phenomenal collection assembled in the two decades before World War I. Q. David Bowers wrote...
There's no "plating" on a 1941 penny. It's been treated with a chemical, maybe buffed with a strong abrasive.
Nearly 50 years ago, the Pfizer Drug Company tried sending ancient coin replicas to doctors as part of a novel advertising program to increase...
1912 and 1916 Barber Dimes, as shown below. Price for the pair, $10 postpaid. PayPal or convenience-store money order. Shipped only to the United...
With a little cooperation from your LCS (who surely has first-class scales), or "maybe" a drugstore pharmacy, you can make and test precision 8,...
This coin may have been punched and used as a washer; many large cents were. Small hardware was expensive and hard to find in the first quarter...
Absolutely yes. See the lamination I listed on January 9. About the same position, but runs clear across the bottom of the coin, totally...
You may not know that playing cards were used as emergency currency in the "New France" portion of Canada, 1729 to 1757. Playing card money...
I don't know if it's allowed, but you should specify the minimum bidding increment, and postage, and where you won't ship. If it's OK, and it...
The Edgar Marcus Company of Marion, Ohio (a supplies producer) makes clear screw-top tubes for ASEs.
I agree with rascal's comments on this "Make an Offer" @#&*$. When I see that obnoxious, dimwitted Loser's strategy in a listing, I move right...
Just having fun in a machine shop. Worth something less than 5 cents, since no merchant's likely to accept it.
Set of four U.S. Mint “Bicentennial” medals, as shown, for 1972 through 1975. The envelopes are also First Day Covers for the blocks of...
For sale: Total 10 Mardi Gras “throws” and 9 wooden nickels, some as early as the 1960s. Mardi Gras - all are anodized aluminum; wooden nickels -...
Ammonia will clean silver coins, but not nickel or copper coins. I don't know the chemistry involved.
One problem with the dimwits on CraigsList, they try to post photos taken with a phone. Usually they aren't even right side up.
No, I gotta admit, I have no idea what you're trying to show...on this pennie. I do notice that the D and E of "dei" have horizontal scrape marks...
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