We have a three day holiday weekend. Let’s celebrate the birth of a nation the best way we know how. By posting your colonial, post colonial and...
Our own @lordmarcovan was traveling through and stopped by my place today. We oogled coins together and I just had to talk him out of this one. I...
I’m not worried about my safe walking out the door. It is large, extremely heavy and bolted down…… When I bought the safe, I wanted one with a...
I have an upcoming trip to the UK in July. My bank told me they needed 2-4 weeks to get me some UK currency so I ordered it Monday and it came...
I am an old guy that spent fifty years being happy with very, very average coins. The last ten years or so, I have afforded myself the luxury of...
Sent a rather amusing letter about his newly developed "flux inducer".... And a 2000 Virginia quarter stamped with "Easy Button"..... I am never...
I never was an errors/variety guy. Two years ago this 2019 MAD dime showed up in my pocket. It was fun for me finding a minor error in my pocket...
The older I get, the more my collecting tends to favor our nation’s infancy. I been on the lookout for one of these for several years now. They...
A young lady that I work with had her mother pass recently. Of course everyone I work with knows I am a coin-o-holic, so today she brings me the...
I made a mistake ten years ago or so. Silver seemed to stabilize at around $30.00 an ounce so I got comfortable buying again. Well, we all know...
Ten years ago I gave my grandson an old worn half slick Morgan. I remember that year I gave a Morgan to all my grandkids, nieces and nephews……...
I don't do the bidding thing very well. If I see a coin I like, I place what I am willing to pay and move on with my life...... Well, I saw one on...
I was perusing the current Heritage auction and placing a bid or two when I ran upon this. As I understand it, this was a pattern dollar and I...
When I am able to get to a show one of my favorite things to do is to find the tables with the high end dealers. They usually have halogen lamps...
I know the 1921 Peace dollars got a nice boost in value this last year. And the 21 Peace deserves it…… I was plundering my rolls of cull dollars...
There will come a day…. Probably sooner rather than later that one of my kids will clear out my safe and start posting my beloved coin collection...
Down at the coast in a very historic area so I study the area on my phone and see that I have a coin shop in town! Head down there, pay to park...
We all got ‘em. We don’t brag about them or post threads about them…. Until now. Let’s give the cheesy coins some love. I’ll start with this fine...
Rarely I will bid on an eBay coin and have won a few. I place my max bid and go on about my business. There are two terms that I hear regularly...
The time has come.... I simply have to make some space and I am thinking of selling (shudder) or trading out rolls of wheat cents. I am not going...
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