A 1914 Indian head eagle, certified MS63, mintage of 151,000, 0.48 oz of gold, can be obtained for about the same price. Easy choice. Cal
You’re good at grading and have an obvious interest as well as talent. Me … not great at grading. Mostly buy certified coins. I have favorite...
I'll be there 20th and 21st. Often go to summer ANA meeting. Have never stayed at a hotel with their "special" rates, which are still high....
Yep, thermal shocking was used. First you freeze the area with CO2 spray, then torch it. Then try torching and CO2 spray. No joy. It's not...
Longtime subscriber. First to paper edition; now to digital. Tried to logon yesterday. Get message website is down for work. Tried today....
The bolt broke because they all had to be removed to replace the header gasket. This one was stubborn. My mechanic tried all kinds of tricks:...
None of the bolt or broken bit is above the surface. Cal
Nice stories, Dan. So, how would you remove the sheared bolt in the exhaust header on my old F250? My mechanic tried all sorts of things and...
If you are thinking of credit cards that don’t renew, you’re correct. However, I’ve had merchants discover the new expiration date on my credit...
I did a whois on the URL, ancientrarecoins.com. The URL is registered through Wix (a company commonly used to setup and resister websites). The...
I wonder if Ancient Rare Coins may have swiped the street address. If they do business only online, they don’t need to have a valid street...
I try to avoid paying for magazine subscriptions with a credit card but use a check instead. This is always possible for paper subscriptions and...
Rare Coin Market Report has been discontinued. In its place is PCGS Insider. Issue #1 is the May/June issue. The main difference is there is...
I reported accurately what was in the Coin World article. Their calculations on the value of the Russian gold match mine if the increase in gold...
Yes, you're right. It was the SS Central America which sank off the coast of S. Carolina. Cal
There is an interesting article in the 23 June issue of Coin World about the RMS Republic salvage efforts. The ship sank in January 1909 off...
If someone is selling rental property and shortly buying new rental property, they can often postpone capital gains by doing a 1031 exchange....
Congratulations on your retirement, Jim. Look forward to hearing more about your new ventures. I was able to retire from full time teaching in...
The first spreadsheet program was VisiCalc written by Bricklin and Frankston for the Apple II. It dramatically increased the sales of Apple...
I remember being blown away by Lotus on the IBM PC-XT and by WordPerfect. Then QuattroPro leapt ahead of Lotus. Microsoft struggled to have its...
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