Who knows what is foolish? This feels like the late 1970s and early '80s all over again. Fuel prices are inflating the economy, the Fed has put...
Heritage auctions had its DeWitt sale of political items this week. The prices realized were "aggressive" to the least. Many items went for way...
Here's the logic if this deal really was random. The seller buys a roll of 1909-S cents in low grade. He buys another roll of 1909-VDB cents in...
As W. C. Fields sat down the pay poker with three other guys, one of them asked, “Is this a game of chance?” “No,” the great comedian answered,...
Yes, the price is too high even if the coin had not been holed and plugged.
It looks genuine, but the surfaces have been stripped at given a layer of artificial toning that looks really artificial. It was probably part of...
At least AU-58 with a shot at low end Mint State. It’s got a light rub.
For me the “treasure hunt” is learning history, politics and economics. The grading and learning about what is valuable stems from that. It sounds...
EF-40 was my number before I saw the slab. Don't waste your money. The coin might get an EF-45 from NGC, but it's not worth it, and it's worth...
I think that the low condition estimates were connected to the toning, which I would say is original. These coins are prone to unattractive...
The sharpness is better than it might appear on the surface. I'd say EF-40.
The way my tastes run, if a coin or token has a mark on it that is going to bother me every time I see it, I pass. Aside from 19th century U.S....
There should be nothing wrong with collecting Confederate currency and learning something about the history, economics and design factors that...
I usually find that anything that interests me has auction bids that go to the moon. The stuff I don't want just sits. I've thought that perhaps...
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Given the hole, at that price, I could live without it. It's neat idea to think that one of Brutus' high ranking supporters might have worn it,...
I have a many of the modern commemorative coins from the '80s, '90's and 2000s. I quit buying most of them circa 2015. I thinking about "thinning...
I remember hearing a "Copperhead" described as the head cut out from a "copper penny" during one the chapters in the award winning Ken Burns...
When I was a dealer, I had other dealer ask me to bid on the coins he had up on eBay. "You won't have to pay for them," he told me. I declined to...
Most all of the pro-southern tokens were made in the by or for "copperheads," northern southern sympathizers. Their message was subtle. For...
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