What a wonderful gift your grandpa left you! I agree with @Robert Ransom on the intrinsic value. However the connection to your family is priceless.
Dang... That was a way better “one up” than mine!! LOL
Dave, I think you should send me yours. It would make a great bookend match for mine. [ATTACH]
That gave me a belly laugh!!
My dealer has one of those in his case. On his bill old Ben has an interesting smirk on his face.
I didn’t strike any pieces (though I think that would be cool), I did have a coupe thousand wooden nickels made many years ago that look...
I used to justify my purchases by accepting that if the cash was in my pocket then it would be spent on something fleeting and forgotten about in...
I had known that Grant struggled with failure as a young man. I can much relate to that. I think that is why I had always had a keen interest in him.
I want to see the clothes..... Oh, killer half too!
You made it longer than I did.
I am not one of the resident error experts but I do recognize this as a very cool misaligned die strike or MAD. Cool find.
I spent every spare moment of my teenage years in a tiny coin shop much like the shop described in the OP's original post. I would even do chores...
I hear that. The History Channel hasn’t been much on history for years now. But they did a good job so far with the Grant piece.
LOL..... Yeah I do own some fugly Mercs due to that old folder. More lovingly referred to as “terminal”.
John.... I select a photo from my phone or computer data files and attach it. It always defaults to the thumbnail you see below. It is only after...
Full disclosure. I didn’t dig that one. A friend of mine that is a military button collector dug that. He had no interest in the coin so I traded...
General Jackson?
Don’t know if anyone else is engrossed in this History Channel program. Living in the heart of the confederacy, I had been anxiously awaiting this...
The word "rare" in a seller's description is a turn off for me. Some coins do deserve the designation. However most of what I see termed as "rare"...
Yeah... Sadly that is the case with Whitman folders. I had a Mercury dime book that I started in the 1970's and finished twenty years later. Put...
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