Hey Jack fantastic write-up and images! It's a real shame they closed down a base with that kind of history. :( But those Able Dogs still rock. :)
I love names like that on tokens. Who would expect to see a Fire Island in Alaska? Plus it's a military token. :)
Looks to be in good shape. Nice pick up!! :)
From Dr. Robert Bilinski's: A Guide to Coin Investment second edition 1958: "Of the 2,118,250 coin collectors in the U.S. 2.7 percent, or...
Thank you Charmy. That wasn't a Walking Dead convention; that was the stamp section. :p sorry ...
I wish someone would mislead me with a cobalt blue coin. :)
You may also be making it harder for buyers to grade your coins. And/or making it easy for them to convince themselves your trying to mask...
What will stop someone from putting the coin in another flip and sealing it if heat sealers don't cost much?
There probably was a time when heat sealers were expensive. I got some mail order coins in the 80's (the robber baron era for coins) sealed in...
Texas just because I like it. I don' t see a poll?
Is that the wolf Fenrir--the wolf who devours everything in sight during the Ragnarok apocalypsie?
It wasn't directed at you. Your post just reminded me how often that theme comes up. Even in this thread it was cited several times before your post.
Assuming the U.S goes cashless so what? People collect things that they never knew existed in their every day routines. Somehow they found their...
Karl Marx said it.
I tell you the hobby's been going to hell in hand basket ever since they stopped selling square hole kodar flips. And those ridiculous black and...
[ATTACH] Dr. Robert Bilinski's book from 1958. I believe flipper, speculator and coin investor has always been the prerequisite delusion to...
We'll never know how many dedicated coin collectors today began as speculator wannabes.
Well said Jwt708! [IMG]
When I first got on the Internet in 2000 I became interested in Lincoln Cent BIEs. I accumulated several hundred of them in about 8 months and my...
What about the speed by which collectors can accumulate material in on-line auctions? Or web-sites that you can seach out in a few hours vs dozens...
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