The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is for books and book collectors. They have a free weekly email letter called the "E-Sylum." (Their print...
(Sorry to have been away. I started a new job and we are moving. Things are stacking up here a bit.) brg5658's tokens are stunning. I note the...
Yes, that is the story we tell. It does beg the question, though, does it not? Why were these tokens not hoarded? The fact that we identify them...
If you have not seen the Bowers book, then how can you know that the old books by the Fulds are better? I agree that as with Bust Halfs or other...
OK, wheat is easy. The US Barber series has wheat, corn, and tobacco, as symbolic of the three crops important to the sections of the nation....
Pictures of a Distant Country: Seeing America Through Old Paper Money by Richard Doty (Whitman, 2013, 296 pages, $24.95) is a "coffee table" book...
I had no idea. I searched for his name here ahead of my book review and saw this. I am bummed out. His Smithsonian obituary here:...
Nice coins all in all! I am very impressed. Contrary to the prologue, I never wanted one of my own. My interest was in Greek, not Roman. Rome...
Ah! At what age is a child right for Yugioh, or Hulk comics, or baseball cards, or going to the science museum? I mean, my daughter never cared...
The day the child is born is a good time. I agree that about age eight, the child has enough general awareness of the world, that it has lands...
It would never happen. The date is on the obverse and the VDB is on the reverse. If I saw the 1909, I would want it, VDB or not. What is a...
Sinope. Likely struck under the authority of Diogenes the Cynic before he fled to Athens. My collection was built around the times and towns of...
No, is the easy answer. However, I do accumulate my change into containers and sort through it. I separate out the pre-1982 cents. All...
The "burn spots" are toning. Silver reacts with oxygen, sulfur and other chemicals in the air. That changes its color. In a way, it is...
How many times did you have to send it in to get the grade you wanted? PGGS slabs the Parmalee/Reed 1804 Dollar PR-71. It sells for a billion...
So, you think it is legal for you to offer $100,000 in counterfeit $100 bills as long as you say that they are counterfeit? It would not be your...
Read the laws for yourself. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-25 If you have a question, pay a competent attorney who...
I have to disagree. You need to define "counterfeit." It is true that contemporary counterfeits get a blind eye from the law. The letter of...
"Title" only means a legal right to own something. The idea does come from ancient titles such as "Duke of York." You have a paper title to your...
At a local coin club meeting, I was talking about ancients, passing them around. A nice old guy dropped my Ptolemy Tetradrachm on the linoleum...
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