I don't have specifics but it seems to be some kind of victory medal commemorating the Spanish-American War. I can't find anything on Google which...
I was always collecting one thing after another when I was a kid, some traditional collectibles like baseball cards and some things only I was...
If I got more money than expected for something I was selling on eBay I'd be ecstatic. That's what eBay is all about - you sell something and try...
I never used the ATM until the last two years or so when I got direct deposit. Now I always get my cash from the ATM, and since it's just $20s...
I have several 2010 dimes and pennies but no nickels or quarters.
Wow, it seems like pretty much everyone does haggle. I've mostly been buying cheaper coins but eventually I'll get to the better ones and I figure...
I was wondering if a coin shop is the kind of place where you are expected to pay the asking price or you are expected to haggle. There are...
I was wondering if some government agency routinely removes old or damaged coins from circulation the same way they do with paper currency? It...
I was always saving wheat pennies and older nickels and the occasional silver or foreign coin I'd get in circulation until in the last year I...
That's funny because I just recently discovered this trick and I thought I was the only one who was onto it. I found two Canadian dimes so far but...
I think the reverse on the cent looks kind of retro, like more 19th century. I'm not sure if I like it, but it's different, that's for sure.
Many of you may already have gotten the 2010 coins, but I just my first ones today. I don't know if they just made it to the Chicago area or what,...
I've always considered them Philippines, not American. I divide my world coins by nation if I have enough of them or by region if I don't, and for...
I agree that much of the problem is people not writing in clear, complete sentences, but I think you had a right to expect a roll of wheat pennies...
One time I bought a coin that was inside what looked like cardboard. I mean literally inside it. I don't know what you'd call this packing method,...
I do check out coin shops, but some things I need the local shops don't have. Like in the example I quoted, I was trying to fill an album of...
I have been buying a lot of coins on eBay recently, and of course one of the determining factors about whether I buy is the shipping charges. When...
I'd be interested in the info on the Yahoo group for foreign coins that you mentioned.
This probably doesn't help much, but for the last one I know Maria Theresa was the empress of Austria around the late 1700s. The middle one seems...
I have a lot of the same thoughts as you and there's definitely a lot I don't understand about the finer points of the hobby, but I think this is...
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