Just my luck! The items that they have offered again for sale are ones in my collection that were enjoying a nice secondary market increase....
My father used to (and still does) walk by the coin dealers at the local mall looking for treasures. He has always stayed away from the higher...
Wow, Deja-vu. This sure is starting to sound like another shop/slabber relationship from the past. LJR, if you check through the past threads...
Looked over my sets just now and I will say they are just what I expect from the mint. Acceptable but a far cry from great. In my Denver set the...
I remember my aunt who was a dealer at the Harolds Club in Reno gave me a nice shiny Morgan dollar. I immediately went to the grocery store and...
The cheaper models work well in good conditions and when not in "dirty" ground. The difference comes into effect when searching in areas with...
Before they went out of business, the local Montgomery Wards had a coin dept. That wasn't that long ago either. 2003 I think.
I actually didn't get interested and start collecting until later in life. When I was young all I saw were Quarters, Dimes, Nickels and "Pennies"...
As a business the mint is out there to make money and they know how to do it. History shows that even when they come up with bad ideas,...
Military "Challenge" coins are great. So many to choose from and the designs are wonderful.
A friend of mine took off to live in California so he left me several boxes full of old issues of the Red Book and the Numismatist. All Red Books...
Hey, when you get to be my age, any woman looks good!! I just wish they would bring back the bare breasts. My pick for ugliest.....Silver 3-cent.
Hey, this isn't something that is reserved only for the young collector. Even us old, fat collectors run into this same problem from time to time.:)
I had friends like this also but when they found out how much money my coins were making they quit rolling their eyes and started collecting to...
Same here Doug. I'm glad to see the increase though. Wonder what brought on this upward spike?
All that I have seen have that same look. I think it must be from the burnishing process. That was the original statement published back when the...
Nice rim damage on the reverse. That's sure to knock it down a grade.
Which will be more valuable in the long run, certified/graded examples or ones in the original slabs with orig. labels?
Here's one I got back from ANACS to compare it with. BU details, (cleaned), net graded AU-58.
Hey Leuquim. If I were you I would get my hands on a good metal detector and head back to that big square stone (with permission of course)....
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