4/11/21: This contest is now CLOSED. Winners announced in Post #78. Contest #1 Last week everyone was asking for a “guess the pile” contest....
I have an acquaintance that buys abandoned storage rooms. When he happens upon a stash of coins he lets me buy them for a deal. Usually he shows...
I am a US coin guy and am oblivious to world coins. I have a deal with a fellow that buys abandoned storage rooms. When the rooms have any old US...
We had some discussion here about a website called coinshx.com. It was apparent they were selling fakes so I purchased two pieces for educational...
I make no apologies. I like blast white coins. That is just my thing. One thing I have solidly learned being here on CT is that silver will tone....
Spending some quality coin time this afternoon. Packing my slabbed coins back up for storage in my safe and I know there has got to be a better...
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There are odd snippets of information in my head that I seem to have absorbed over the years. I have a story about the 55 DD cent that is either a...
I have made it a point since Christmas to use cash for my daily transactions as my credit card demanded a vacation. To date I have not had a...
The photo below is courtesy of Great Collections....... Now I been collecting fifty years and I still get childlike giddy at 18th century US...
This was a big deal in 2019. I had a great time stashing Buffalo nickels at school entries and the like. Any chance this will come around again?
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Just received my first gift of the season... From me and to me.... And it’s a GTG for you... @C-B-D is exempt from this challenge! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
OK.... Actually two moral quandaries. I have assembled a lot of Whitman’s and Dansco’s over the years and I can say that I deeply loathe empty...
The UPS man just handed me my order of the new Bush dollars. I ordered one roll of “P” and one roll of “D” primarily to plug the holes in my...
Several days ago @C-B-D showed a coin labeled as having been tooled. A previous owner had embellished details of the coin in an effort to improve...
I am committed to two Presidential series Dansco's and today the mint is releasing the Bush dollars. I plan to buy a roll each of P's and D's to...
Heritage is having an active auction on these and I just spent an hour perusing them. I truly had no idea that private strikes were so widespread...
Winding down for a long holiday and tried to bring up the Kitco site this afternoon just to see where things are. It wouldn’t load so I went on...
Lately I been getting a lot of emails from Mike Mezaks outfit. It gets my goat that his emails are titled, from the “CSN Mint”... Really??..... I...
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