I'll agree that a coin club is a great place to learn, trade, buy and sell coins. However, starting one or joining one is risky in cetain areas....
I'll go along with the people from small towns as to the honesty of the people there. When the town is really small anyone that would steal...
I agree 101.7 %. However, our stores, buisnesses, government, will always just round up the charges as we all must know by now.
I've got 10 complete sets of Lincoln Cents. HOWEVER, when I say complete I mean the actual for real coins and not necessarily the odd balls that...
Like many rare items they are worth only what someone will pay for them. That is an interesting web sight for rotated die coins. However, at all...
Oh come on and open them. Your not going to sell them so enjoy what they MAY look like. for all you know they are all corroded in there. Open them...
Really great photos. I like the photos better than the coin. However, that is a nice coin. One thing I've always noted is the tremendous amount of...
It really is amazing how few dealers and collectors know how many coins have that feature. It is really noticable when you put coins in a Whitman...
1894 may be about $4,000 or more. The other one about $4 to 500 or more. Yes you made a mistake. You should have contacted this forum or purchased...
I really think we need a separate forum for cleaning coins. That subject is repeated just to frequently. However, for you cleaning problem, since...
That is going to be great, great news for counterfeiters. Just think of how easy it would be to make your own money. Some do it now with metal but...
Nice finds. Makes you wonder how a proof got into circulation though.
Around here there are to many cops themselves being arrested for crimes. I still remember a really big police scandal where an entire police...
Try a combination of baking soda and distilled water. Make a paste, rub the coin very sightly with the paste and then rinse. If you really don't...
Nice finds. Got to get me one of those metal detector things but may be to late. I see so manny people using them.
I wouldn't buy a pile of junk coins for maybe one or two decent ones and none really worth the trouble. Then your kind of stuck with the whole...
Actually the humidity has little to do with the reaction of dissimilar metals touching each other. The principle is really commonly used for the...
Way, way, way back when I was a kid the apparent distruction of coins seamed like the thing to do. One of the things we all did back then was...
Actually I did purchase more by quantity than quality. One of the things I did with a Whitman Classic Album was to add enough pages to put two...
Nice find especially in that condition. As noted to bad no date. At coin shows that kind goes for about $5 or so. With a date it would be $15 or more.
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