It chaps my backside that so much of my collection resides in the bank. But that’s just the way it has to be these days…. I don’t have any...
Well…. I am like the OP. The majority of my PM’s were acquired twenty years ago or better and I have been fortunate. These days I’ll buy...
I know, right? I been fully satisfied with US coins my entire life…. I join CT and find a whole new way to burn money!
Very sweet! That's an easy rabbit hole to stumble into!
Egads!
Agreed.... Most any coin from the 19th century has been cleaned. Just was the way our predecessors did things. And being that I am an old school...
I been known to plug Dansco’s like that.
Amazing what one can accomplish with a buffing wheel and a touch of red rouge.
I have a set of three of these. Back in the 1990’s my young son spent two weekends sweeping floors at a flea market to buy them for me for...
A coin like this isn’t defined by the intrinsic value. Rather by the historical value. And on that level, your coin is priceless.
You can really get into the weeds trying to figure out long term market swings. In my mind quite simply, gold and silver have been the very basis...
I too have a hard time justifying lowering a coins grade and that alone will likely keep me from doing it….. I have a complete Merc book and the...
I have been assembling a circulated three cent nickel book and I am down to those last two dates. Circulated business strikes are many thousands...
Post away Lauri.
Fellow dreams bid, doesn’t he?….. Too bad I missed all that.
Just went thru my quarter jar. Had everything except Florida and Alaska…. But the most fun was using the Quartermaster’s counter struck quarters....
I had more fun putting one of those together with my young son back in the day. It got “unassembled” when he got old enough to need cash and I...
Don’t even know how to respond this, fellows. It’s quite humbling actually. Thank you for the kind words.
Once again LordM, I am indebted to your servitude. Thank you very much!
Well…. see if this did it. I found the thread…. I can read this and see that I learned more in my five years here than I did the previous forty...
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