Fair enough. So to OP unless you know where a coin was dug up, I agree with Doug to choose a circulated S or CC coin as your "Wild West" coins. I...
The 1943 cent was made from zinc coated steel. Any 1943's should stick to a magnet. Any other date shouldn't. I was asking about this lady's since...
Of course sir, but my point was if a morgan is ciculated it would have a higher chance of having been circulated in the old west than the east...
I agree. There is a strong tradition of using olive oil in cleaning ancients. I believe this started before movern chemistry. Oo is a very light...
I tell you what, IGrade got himself a nice coin. Unless in hand you can see something going on with the luster, (meaning the coin was cleaned and...
No no, I mean you are funny, you tell funny jokes, I like the way you told the story.......what?
I am the same. At coin shows I am usually buying "better" coins, so only buy a few at most. I have seen "vest pocket dealers" use briefcases...
If you like the old west, I would buy circulated Morgans. Silver dollars historically were not popular on the east coast, but were used a lot in...
Funny world where FRN's are considered "hard currency" huh? I understand your point sir, I simply think its funny that we have come so far to the...
Not a bad summary sir but I disagree with Islamic coins being one of the founding types of coins. It is generally recognized there were three...
The BEP prints the notes, and gets paid a fee for doing so. If they print a $100, they might be paid $.12 for it, they do not get $100 for the...
The Fed can print money. They print a bunch of $100's and sell them to banks. The banks transfer electronically dollars in return, and the Fed...
Close, but its more scope of amounts outstanding. There is like $600 billion in all FRN, (cannot remember exact number), but $15 trillion in...
Lucy, maybe post 163 will help, or another post I made a few posts later. The point was there is many forms of the dollar, but for large...
This. It is from his "menagerie" series of various animals. This series is very popular with a subset of collectors trying to collect all of the...
Even going to the supermarket, nothing stops you from either bringing rolls of quarters or dollar coins, or paying electronically. Either way you...
The only variability is in the interest rate portion of the bond. Nothing changes as far as the Treasury is concerned, they got $1000, they will...
Great post Doug. One thing to remember also was it applied to what was lawful money. Nothing stopped anyone from using any coinage they liked, its...
The face value for these notes typically are $1000. You give them $1000, periodically they pay you interest, and you get back $1000 when they...
Yes, same as digital dollars do you no good at a swap meet, same as FRN do you no good on Ebay. They are all dollars, just different forms. You...
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