That's a great looking coin. Never thought of the bicentennial coins as pretty cameos, guess I was wrong. [edit] Stupid quarantine cabin fever, I...
There is (or was) a poster on here that had a wonderful collection of early copper varieties, all culls or holed. I thought it was brilliant,...
Your hunch is right on the money. Mint sales have been declining for many years, hence all the new gimmicks we're seeing these days.
Not super impressed with the quarters this year. Sure, the bats are cool but the set in general... meh [ATTACH]
My seed packet... [ATTACH]
Opened mine, nice proof set with an ugly nickel in a seed packet. Maybe if I plant it I'll get a nickel bush.
Got mine today. Haven't opened it yet as the mail gets quarantined for a few days. :nurse:
eBay and PayPal parted ways.
Great story, those Barbers have great eye appeal
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Not only that but it perpetuates the youTube get-rich-quick fraud where coin collecting (especially errors) is a path to amazing wealth.
I think the new Jefferson nickel in RP is particularly bad.
It's not signed, it's a reverse proof, but YES, OF COURSE IT'S A GIMMICK TO BOOST SALES. And, if last year is any indicator, it will work. Mint...
Agreed. Looked at my spreadsheet (I'm an engineer, I can't help it). Silver proof set issue prices: $21.00 in 1992-98 $32.00 in 1999 when state...
The OP has an issue with the eBay seller known as "the Docktor" who sells coins "found in a safe in a 200 year old pottery shop in West Virginia",...
My subscription shipped today. Yay! Cheap thrills in the midst of being grounded at home are good. :joyful:
Cool Library of Coins book!. I use the pencil eraser & tweezer approach but I like Randy's finger cot solution.
I think most intelligent adults reading this forum realize that the cinder block building in the photo wasn't built in 1818 and the endless stream...
Back before there was an internet, the mint would send little color sales brochures on all the upcoming products. I used to save them all. I had a...
That's pretty interesting. According to this article in Coin World, they aren't supposed to be released until after the Tallgrass Prairie coins...
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