I think it just happened that way, I was trying to get coins on the border between those grades, and so it's not too unlikely. The dealer did say...
Yep, just called and got them. Out of five, one was lower and one was higher than what the dealer had. 1851 G$1 dealer said MS61, graded AU58...
I sent in some coins to be graded last Monday, which arrived on Wednesday. I just got a ship notification that they're on their way back. I was...
Check out this entry for the Arizona one http://www.quarterdesigns.com/proposed/arizona/katiebeamonte.jpg And Hawaii shoulda picked the Hula dancer.
You think they're going to stop making the platinum eagles?
I thought the silver was only available in the proof sets, not the mint sets...
I've seen something in a few places called a "rice puller" coin. It's supposedly an alloy of copper and iridium, and is claimed to have some...
I'm surprised I haven't heard of someone counterfeiting the platinum coins anyway. It seems like it would be easy to make one out of some other...
There are only a few scenerios that I can think of where gold would become so cheap. If, for example, a huge meteorite crashed into the earth,...
I think that the coins have a face value for legal reasons, I know that you can get them as investment coins without paying sales tax if the...
I read a story on another forum about some kid who used a $100 platinum eagle to buy beer in a convience store. He said it was a graduation gift...
I think what our coins need is pictures of cute chicks... :D
If you ask me, it looks like someone put it on the train tracks, but off-center.
At the store where I used to live, you could see the cash register display (which was an LCD computer monitor), and it actually had a big picture...
That quarter (at least the one in the Wiki picture, I don't have a real one in front of me) uses some non-letter braille characters. I wonder why...
Some canadian coins have been found with tiny radio transmitters: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/01/10/rfid-defence.html
A silver round is like a silver bullion bar, except it's round. They often include designs from real coins on one side. I saw the pic you...
Sounds like a silver round...
The melting ban probably won't apply any more once they stop using pennies. Didn't they do the same thing with silver coins back in the day?
I believe he ment that calling them "cheerios dollars" didn't sound numismatic, so instead they called them "boldly detailed tail feathers".
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