Quite true. In some states these obligations come ahead of everything else including say current pay for public servants. In others they're just...
Civil Service pay is the cause of the problem. Civil servants accepted lower pay in exchange for better long-term retirement benefits....
And that's it in a nutshell... anybody can make money cherry picking the profitable customers. But USPS Must deliver to every address Gets no...
USPS has BILLIONS of dollars in unfunded pension and retireee healthcare liabilities, 404-335 = 69 (by their own estimates, they just don't think...
They (the negatives) are still in the museum/library (I think it's technically the museum and I mis-spoke above).
Me neither... they were returned in a poly bag in side a PVC flip. The ledgers are in the ANA library - I viewed them in December. But they stop...
Yes, ANACS began in DC (close to the Smithsonian reference collection) and moved to CS. This is one of the later photo certs from Conder's...
I'm with the group that thinks she looks better than she really is... In the words of the CW song: I went home at 2 with a 10 and woke up at 10...
Loved the report. One of these years I HAVE to get to FUN. 1000 tables is just insane. My wife wants to know if Penny thinks she is allowed on...
Small rotations like this are quite common. At 10% you are getting up to the noticeable level on simple inspection which makes it cool but not...
Yes, it's a US 3 cent silver (3CS is the common abbreviation). They were known as 'fish scales' or trimes and are the smallest (14mm) US Silver...
Looking back over this thread, I think David's comment hits the key... the 50SQ program isn't for serious collectors/numismatists... it's the...
What do you call a car with 3 lawyers going off a cliff? A missed opportunity...
There are models of heat sealers (http://www.uline.com/Grp_46/Poly-Bag-Sealers) that have plates that emboss the design, thus preventing...
Not really... this is the kind of grading where the 6-10 seconds per coin really comes from. Pick it up, flip it over, it's either a 70 (left...
Not even that... if he had invested the $111.11 per year at just 2% (and savings rates for many of those years were MUCH higher), he would have...
We can do the 50 state Flowers Birds Fruit Vegtable Etc. Covers the mint until 2100 at lease
Technically it's an illegal lottery, but eBay don't care.... (eBay makes the Honey Badger seem like a caring member of society)
After about 10K, you probably get pretty good at it. Although you should then go back and regrade the 1st 10K with your learned standards. And...
Coinchem- BIG differences between the two parties to the original grading contract and what can be assigned to a subsqeuent owner of the coin....
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