Perhaps there were some surplus slabs with Moy's name on them.
Do you store any ammunition in that safe?
I think we may be talking about two different age groups, those that are too young to have resources to bid and purchase and those that do have...
We didn't know that. The only news we got was the radio and the newspaper. They didn't write about coins and stamps much. Special publications...
My early life could mirror your description above. One difference, we didn't have TV then. Today most snail mail comes in the form of junk with a...
In recent decades the USPS has put out over a thousand new stamps per decade. That would be over 100 new stamps per year. That doesn't count...
Looks to be oriented correctly to me.
Being in statistics most of my life, I found the same thing true - what do you want the statistics to show?
I'm talking about the so-called "Gold Dollars", Presidential, Native American, Innovation, etc.
Do they make money on the "gold dollars"? I understand that most of them go into treasury vaults, a few to collectors and none into circulation.
This album may "disassemble" on its own before my heirs get it. I "put it together" in the 50's, and, as you can see, I am still putting it...
Who is "we"?
One day the US Treasury will have to construct another vault or bigger vault to store surplus metallic dollars and half dollars.
I understand. It is frustration more than anything else. I participated for more than 70 years and had to yield to the politically correct...
Another thought I have regarding the changing face of collecting - take a look at the Red Book and see the section regarding issue price and...
I like woodgrains. I saved everyone I saw as a youngster. I didn't know at the time what they were, they just looked different and got put away. I...
@ToughCOINS I stopped about 20 years ago. You may have seen what a twenty year album looks like (in my post above). And you have may have seen...
I agree. My number one criteria for a coin is eye appeal. And, I like coins that had to work for a living. And, I like as found coins, except for...
As I sort through my stuff I will watch for such items.
Yes, but, since I terminated my collection in 2002 and have virtually all the stamps of the 20th century, I would be filling holes one piece at a...
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