I am thinking of pursuing this from circulation. I mean, that is what real collecting is. These coins come by often enough that I could fill an...
The government was in denial. Silver coins dated 1964 were produced through 1965. The simple fact of fiat money inflation was being denied and...
Interesting discussion. I went to the Breen Encyclopedia. 316,076 Peace Dollars dated 1964 were struck May 15-24, 1965. They were recalled and...
Coinage Act of March 3, 1851: Authorized the 3-cent (0.750 fine silver) with legal tender status up to 30 cents. ["Three Cents for Your Thoughts"...
Happy Holidays from Target! [ATTACH]
Actually, they all were. We are not sure about why the first coins were struck, but soon thereafter, people did use them for promoting their...
Actually, you are probably best served by the online community. http://www.ancients.info/ is a service of the Vcoins.com sellers. The homepage...
You can get all you want from your bank: rolls and rolls, boxes, and bags. Spend them freely. Clerks will find them inconvenient; and every day,...
You read stories (especially on coin boards) about clerks puzzled by Kennedy halves or Eisenhower dollars. When I was at Coin World, Bill Gibbs...
Not recently, but I have read these: Up the Line by Robert Silverberg. Set in Constantinople between the time of Justinian and the Fall, most of...
Yeah... she had me goin' for almost a minute... I envisioned a wall of my office with Conder Token wallpaper... Then >pop!< the bubble burst......
I concur. Not ancient. It is an arm's length fake. At 31.75 grams it is twice as heavy as a real one. ... but it might be real silver......
Nice catch the Central Mine Deuce! I cannot recall ever seeing one of those! PCGS graded them all Fine or Very Fine, but none seems to have been...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Abdera c. 510 BCE. Uncatalogued. silver half-obol. 0.33 grams; diameter 5 mm ~ one-eighth inch. at 10 X.
I bought this for $5 at the local Goodwill computer store. (They also have a museum in back with an autographed Dell, a Cray, a PDP-8, a Data...
I agree that the Wayne Sayles books are the best for a beginner who wants to understand the field. Sayles is a blue collar kind of guy himself,...
Right... thanks for the obvious fact I overlooked. I just took it from the books. The evidence speaks otherwise. Nice catch! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I nominate the National Bank Notes of the First Charter.
I have to admit - reluctantly - that from 1916 to 1932 the US Mint finally got the artistry and the industrial processes all right. But what...
I did six of them, taking the TIMED tests. A Penny for Your Thoughts? You scored: 848 / 1000 You scored 9 questions correct on your first try....
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