Ouch. Well: * I am aware of other, less expensive copper bar, ingot, etc. sources * The item I purchased is noted on the website as a...
I recently ordered a one-ounce copper ingot from Noteworthy Collectibles, which resulted in a background story about the event, online here, with...
Christian- I knew the Mother Teresa coin was disqualified but didn't realize Krause had replaced it with the Poland coin. Thanks for the update....
The next in a series of articles, from the the publication "Coins, Currency & Canberra" from the Royal Australian Mint: proclamation coins, holey...
Christian- Squarespace (where my blog is hosted) can be flakey at times, like this morning. You could try going to metacoin.com; should be in the...
Krause Publications has named ten Coin of the Year winners. None are U.S. coins and because I don't know world coins all that well, did a search...
The Royal Australian Mint has a printed brochure on the history and processes of producing Australian Coinage. Currently unavailable online, I...
Additional information from Ancient Coin Collecting about the Archeological Institute of America's ongoing efforts to control the definition of...
Could it be used for coins? And would that be 'cleaning' or 'conservation'? "Where there's silver, there's tarnish. While getting the tarnish...
Posted online by Numismatic News: Responding to a lawsuit initiated by Collectors Universe, parent company of the Professional Coin Grading...
Numismatic News' Dave Harper comments on the recent double eagle find in Great Britain. Based on recent cultural property assertions regarding...
A recent post on Ancient Coin Collecting about the ongoing conflict between 'cultural property bandits' (that could be you, world coin collector)...
More on the excavation and preservation of the 'largest pot of Roman coins ever found in Britain', fascinating reading from The British Museum....
From the E-Gobrecht (reposted with permission), a fairly lengthy article about 1841 and 1841 New Orleans Mint Seated Liberty dime varieties. Maybe...
For your amusement on the first 2010 October weekend, a proposed design for a 50th anniversary coin for the Ames, IA, coin club. Accepting that...
My point is not that there was no notice of the hiatus, which there obviously was (and which I noted), but that any visitors find a 'dead' site....
A website from a dynamic, industry-leading auction company that hasn't changed since August 10 (here http://bit.ly/66oei1)? Yeh, notice was given...
From the NGC website, an article by author and NGC Research Director David W. Lange about how coin lettering is and was done. http://bit.ly/ax9qpo
Posted recently on Discovery News (www.discovery.com), the ongoing restoration efforts for the ship recently found at the World Trade Center...
It never occurred to me that the bit.ly URL might be a problem. I'll try to remember to list the main site when I post in the future. The URL...
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