Someone on here has a quote about the difference between a coin collector an a numismatist - the numismatist spends more on books than coins....
This is definitely a bear market for generic coins, and MS66 Peace Dollars are generic - enough around to fill need. These are the times to be...
Very small.
My favorite motto - "Por Razón, o La Fuerza", By Reason or Force. Like saying, "We don't care how we get power - either you'll agree with us, or...
Happens to us all. I call it tuition.
Not the coins, but the planchets before striking. As was mentioned, if the dies were treated wrong and were too hard, they became brittle. Too...
The same goes with Full Bell Lines (FBL) on Franklin Half Dollars - any nicks or marks that go through them remove them from the FBL category. It...
Yes, the proofs will all have an 'S' mint mark.
I actually bought a roll of wheat backs on eBay once and the seller thought he was pulling something over on me by inserting what they thought was...
I have made similar looking coins playing around with the bead blasters at the mint where I worked.
It mentioned that all of the "experimental" coins were eventually issued specially in sets or individually. Some extras were released to...
I agree. And people had thicker skin too.
South Florida has nothing on Maracaibo, Venezuela. I came back to Utah in mid-July and had to wear a sweater at night and put a blanket on my bed...
Well done. Looking at the date should have been the giveaway for me.
I don't remember. I think it was a French Indo-China copper piece. It was only in VF, so I sold it. I know better now.
I've lived in SLC, so we get hot and cold. We tool my daughter to Orlando when she was 9. I told her she would get to feel humidity of r the...
I had a world coin from King Farouk's auction - cost me $5 or $10. I just picked up a couple of Classic Silver Commems from the Bowers & Merena's...
It is sterling silver and worth at least $3 in silver. I would need to look in my Krause Catalog to see if it is a better date and worth more....
It looks like a bulged die to me. It was worn out and was structurally insecure and collapsing. Anyone else?
Someone got into Grandpa's coin collection to buy some candy.
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