When I buy a bulk lot of foreigns, I throw Nazi and Fascist junk in the garbage. I have exactly one communist coin, the New Economic Policy...
You said that you collect circulating world coins. I assume that means only collecting coins that circulate right now. If you follow this link to...
Fanam from the Tipu sultanate 1700-1830. 0.368 grams 7.5 mm. Paid $15 in 1978. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I hate it when people call numismatics "coin collecting". CoinTalk, CoinPeople, Professional Coin Grading Service, Coin World,... Coin, coins,...
Whitman has issued a pared-down, large format, "bookzine" edition of the Guide Book of United States Coins by Yeoman and Bressett. It is intended...
Whitman released a 2014 edition of the classic handbook on US currency, A Guide Book of United States Paper Money by Arthur L. and Ira S....
I found this at the coin store a couple of weeks ago. I got it for a couple of reasons. It was priced near bullion. It is large, over one ounces...
You are mistaken if you think that inflation is a mere 2% or less. The cost of gasoline at the pump has gone up 15% in the past six months....
My wife was born in 1955 and finding circulated Franklins for her was always hard.* But I found this great Unc 1955 for her. I must have compared...
Everyone knows Claudius and we ancient folk know Clodius Albinus. Deep within Suetonius is a paragraph about Claudius's "rural"accent. Senators...
I am way outside my interest area with this, but a co-worker asked me to look at the coins he inherited when his father passed away; and it was...
The E-Sylum weekly email carried a report about the Online Database of Coinage of the Roman Empire: OCRE, which apparently does not turn stringy...
1. If you have a question, ask: somebody knows. 2. Not everyone knows as much as they think they do. 3. Some people really do, though. I am...
You get what you pay for. There is no sense in regretting your ignorance in the past. I was alive for the Bugs Bunny Franklin Half and the...
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is where you will find the buyers and sellers of auction catalogs among all other things bookish. I wrote an...
It seems that you need a standard reference. We had a discussion here comparing the classic books by George and Melvin Fuld with the new 2014...
I wonder why East Texas gets more than Austin. You may just be more aggressive as a collector.
Thanks for the link! I noticed the low number of White Mountain from Philadelphia, not that 68.8 million of anything would be a rarity...
Ah! Well, here in Austin, it's a bit thinner... When I lived in Ohio and Michigan, Ds were a bit scarcer, but not much. Here, we see a real mix...
I started collecting them from pocket change. I am a bit dismayed at the lack of enthusiasm for them. When the 50 State Quarters came out,...
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