100% collector……but 15% of my retirement plan is investing in coins and bullion. Witch I use as an excuse to hang out at the locale coin shop. :p
Thanks for the stories, It puts a human spin on the mystery. :)
No, but I have some silver centavos. Good buys right now IMO. I’ve been happy to get some F-EF for melt. Not to mention the fact that a lot of...
I’d though you paper collectors would enjoy to seeing them. I know I love looking at the pic’s on this forum board. Form what I gather from my...
Hey, I have one of those. Tinny little things aren’t they? :D smaller than a 3cent silver. No idea of it’s value thought. I’m pretty sure I...
On silver it looks like a dull gray to gray-blue film on the surfs. In extreme cases it turns green and can deeply damage the surfs of the coin....
I asked a plastics chemist who know of the old problems with PVC. He said, the brake down of PVC or (PolyVinyl Chloride) cased a chemical that...
Are all examples of a given coin graded as MS64, by the same company worth the same amount of money? How many times have you looked though a box...
OH, I can just see it large retailers lobbying for the $1 bill =) but it will work. They can even put a hole in the 1$ coin to make I lighter. $1...
I’ve seen some fake quarters made of lead zinc and tin. Does the rim have a raised seam as if it was casted? Or is it reed?
Now I know who to blame for all the slide marks on my nickels. :p
I buy dimes because I’m collect Roosevelt die verities. I average about 1 silver dime every 10 rolls though. :( . I also get a few rolls of...
It’s not too uncommon. I have 2 just in my sliver Roosevelt collection. This one is a bit odd looking though. It could be from a bubble in the...
Here’s your chance…I’m buying gold for $42oz. Sell it before the government comes and gets it. lol
Steel pennies are neat coins, one of my favorites in fact. It’s a reminder of just how much was given up for WWII. To me, they are symbol of how...
I don’t know. A lath tool would leave a spiral grove pattern that whould looks more like little tree rings. A sander maybe?
I HOPE so…. Sorry. I’d like some of the high graded coins to come down some. Maybe see silver slump to $6.00 Till it does I’ll stick with my...
I see the dimple, some outwardly spiraling machine marks and a rim. If it was altered I wonder how it was done……hmm
You’re going to be a nightmare for the bank teller. :p Grandparents, relatives and any friends of your parents that save change for long...
I’ll post something on the in general discussion. I don’t want to get in trouble for highjacking the thread any more than I have.
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