IF you have or are thinking about having competitive registry sets and hope to get a best set award, there is a big difference between PCGS and...
Read, read, read about coins... books, magazines, online, and go to shows when it's safe. Soon an area of collection of which weren't...
For any coin purchase, it’s the TCA (total cost of acquisition) that counts … hammer, premium, S&H, taxes, etc. … all of it should be considered...
Yeah, I find this to be the case if you can figure out how to contact the dealer outside of eBay. Some dealers make it easy by their choice of...
Look at auction prices realized for the coins on the PCGS auction website. You'll see most recent prices for these coins in different grades and...
I agree try your luck for the V75 AGE coming up. Assuming you don't win one, you can buy a relatively rare date St Gaudins in PCGS MS63 for about...
OK. Thanks for the info. I may try for one. Cal
Seems to me that it’s the same coin that can be bought from many dealers … just has fancy packaging. If so, the mint stating a mintage of 7,000...
Thanks for the info. I have some follow-up questions. On opening new windows, do you do this by right clicking on some link and choosing open...
I haven’t bought from the mint in decades but thought I would take a chance on the end of WWII coins … especially the gold. Correct me if I’m...
Maybe you've discovered retrograde aging. :) Cal
Where did the term "Bob Sanders" come from? Cal
So the flexible things in your wallet that are printed in green ink with images of dead presidents on them are coins? :) Cal
The problem with stating that an object can be a coin only if issued by a government is there are lots of objects considered coins that were...
Thanks for the advice, and I'll take it. There won't be any definitions presented with questions. If an issue comes up that needs the...
Whoops! Done. Thanks. Cal
I’m generating a set of coin trivia questions, and to restrict potentially correct answers, a few definitions are needed. The definitions below...
If you can melt it with a propane torch, it's almost certainly zinc. [ATTACH] Cal
The ultrasonic scalers used by dentists usually have a metal tip, not something you would want to push across the surface of your coins. I...
Just finished reading “The United States Trade Dollar” by John Willem. I think this is the only book devoted exclusively to the trade dollar. It...
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