At $17 melt value, that silver quarter might still get you a comic book, candy bar, fountain drink, and change. (Not sure; it's been a long time...
McCrory's! We had them, too!
Well, I'm pretty sure that in a hundred years I won't be worrying about how much I overpaid.
It's a nice example, but I don't think it's worth sending in. It may not even get a straight grade with the green stuff happening on it, and I...
We had both Newberry and Woolworth in downtown Hagerstown when I was a little kid, and I'm thinking that one or the other had "five and ten cent"...
I was still a pretty enthusiastic YN during the Bicentennial. Out of loyalty to my younger self, I might still cave in and buy some of the 250th...
Silver is up enormously against gold. Is gold shrinking?
Hah! I just realized that silverprice.org's silver chart has a legend at the bottom showing which markets trade during which hours! [ATTACH]
"Relative scarcity" of Roosevelt dimes washed out when silver hit five dollars an ounce, and people were still filling albums of those when silver...
Yep, the truth is out there. It's just always waaaay at the back of the shelf behind all of the axe-grinders, True Believers, "just asking...
If I ever clear off enough space to take up coin photography again, I'll want to give the different-color-temperature thing a try. I think I...
Kitco isn't showing any trades today higher than $94.60 or so. Still. I can't believe we're looking at over three dollars a gram for silver.
It seems like the highest new highs often come during Asian/overseas trading. I expect it to get knocked back down a bit when American markets...
I can't find a hint of color in the NGC photos. Now I'm wondering if the seller actually uses gel filters, or maybe multiple lights with different...
Seems like most of our car-racing deaths around here have featured homegrown talent. The only Venezuelan immigrant who's attracted my attention...
Depends. Is mine the only 1896 dollar that didn't get melted once silver hit $1K/ounce?
It's a good bit blotchier in the NGC slab photos. I wonder if they decided it was improperly dipped/rinsed. Man, if only that seller would turn...
So... did NGC misinterpret those obverse lines?
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