"Back in the day" they had a numbering chart to fix the exact point where a spike hit the rim. Collectors used it to trade coins with each other....
It's a spiked head die crack.
Base metals such copper, aluminium, tin, zinc.
I hope the silver at least was real after a 12 hour wait.
It would be a good publicity stunt if they could do it.
http://m.npr.org/story/131934618?url=/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-island-of-stone-money Be easy to inflate when they discover concrete.
You'd have to use an ICBM silo for a coin tube.
Yap money is that big and they're just rocks.
I sent my first coin to be authenticated to ANACS in 1979. I thought it was the "deal of the century" for 10 bucks. I didn't realize at the time...
He couldn't, he was always broke.
It's not that much of a moral dilemma. The mall and fountain are private property. Al Bundy would take it. And the quarters too. And molest...
A hoard like this? http://www.coinlink.com/Resources/biographies/virgil-brand/ Love to but I'm a bit short on breweries this week. :D
For 7 or 8 years now I've been thinking about type collecting all the fad stuff from the 60's and 70's. Especially stuff people believed they'd...
He was kind whimsy himself lopping off an ear. Guess they didn't have those Gothy skewer spikes back then. But collecting someone who was whimsy...
Seems like you could keep an aweful lot of notes on a mobile just as saved emails or drafts.
A method for cutting down on whimsy purchases is to limit the space you allow for coins. Another way is to use the rule of 10: never buy an item...
I think it was in a 60's issue of Numismatic Scrapbook that I saw an ad for "Grading Cards." NS was cool magazine.
Nothing will happen. China proclaimed (in front of a bonfire that they claimed was filled with bootleg DVD's) they were going to put a stop to...
Stealth is better than strength. There is no strength that cannot be over whelmed by a superior force. Your a coin collector, embrace paranoia....
http://media.photobucket.com/image/x-files%20-cigarette%20smoking%20man/JOON111/WEB/X-Files-CigaretteSmokingMan.jpg?o=1 Trust no one.
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