CoinStar machines are modern day treasure hunts. I give a scoop every time I pass one by, hoping to find something spiffy in the reject bin....
If it was spent, I'd be very curious as to who got the money. I was a named defendent in the ACG lawsuit, and neither I nor anyone else that I am...
Well... OK, I guess. Certainly it'd be simple enough to alter a 1998 into a 1999 -- just file down the lower left bit of the 8, and it becomes a...
First, all proposals have called for rounding to the nearest next denomination, not always "up". Maybe it was different in Norway. Yes, if we...
Well, there are ways around that, but going to dime-rounding would be too big of a leap for most people anyway. Nonetheless, whether we adopt...
Technically, yes. You could spend it for $50 worth of groceries. It's legal. Also, as you note, quite stupid. Back in 1996 when silver was...
Depends -- if the Mint extends the program for each president as they die. As it stands right now, the last Prexybucks will be issued in 2016 with...
Right. And my point was that the presence of sales tax has no effect whatsoever on cent rounding versus nickel rounding. Do you have a contrary...
Is that bright smile worth $40 million dollars of metal costs per year, plus hundreds of millions of dollars in distribution and handling costs?...
I have a spreadsheet the demonstrates the effect of nickel-rounding versus cent-rounding across 25 random transactions. You can see that even with...
That's not the way nickel-rounding works (as proposed by the likes of the Kolbe bill, for example). Items are still priced to the cent. The...
Firstly, when I say "scrub", I'm using the term colloquially. I have no idea what NCS's processes are for conserving a coin, and as far as I know,...
Fair enough. I was kinda curious to see what the NCS effect was. This was a few years back, shortly after NCS started their service. FWIW, I...
Why would the presence of sales tax change the rounding? You'd just round after the tax. Same diff.
It is the same coin. I had NCS scrub it first before putting it in the NGC slab.
Thanks for posting this, John! I hope it inspires some people to do similar tests.
Congrats indeed! Hopefully it will bring more members and traffic. It brought me back, for one. I registered a while back, and lurked for a...
Gettin' better all the time... I actually think a poor economy helps the coin market (if by "helps" one means that prices go up and coins are...
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