Why just what others have labeled the keys? If you ask serious collectors of a series, there are many coins just as scarce as certain "keys", but...
I would settle for that Mat, lol. My wife is Thai and even collecting Thai coins cannot interest her. Her Thai friends like them, but she doesn't...
Hmmm, ex wife is from Hamburg NY. Good and bad memories. I actually got married in Boston, NY out by there.
Tell you what, you probably would have best off buying BU rolls of cents from the bank. Even the 1856 FE cent would have cost 600 BU IHC's. :)
I wish my family would have been collectors. My mother did have a WL half that sparked my coin collecting when young, and most relatives had some...
Well young fella, I would say let her spend any change she has. This is NOT something to make a stand on. Girlfriends can cost you a heck of a lot...
Lol, there are actually quite a few lincoln's worth more than any Venetian gold ducat. :) I know what you meant man, just had to throw that out...
Yeah, those were in southern Thailand. I think I forgot about them since they weren't the traditional square hole prototypes of the Chinese. They...
Personally, if I was getting back into coins I would go to the show and take a long slow look around. Look at everything for sale. How do you know...
Agreed, it has to be Han, with a slight possibility it could be earlier. I know to most western collectors cash coin looks alike, but if you are...
I find the Mississppi river to be a very good boundary line. In IA and MN all I ever got was Denver coins, but a friend of mine in IL only ever...
Now just to convert all of those lurkers into contributing members. Come on guys, if you are reading this, you can be a member and post whatever...
Or use the $60-75 to add more permanent books to your library. I would suggest Breen, or specialized volumes an whatever series you collect....
Its not the coins that makes a numismatist, its knowledge about coins. Any rich man can write a check, that does not make him a numismatist. You...
First, I have no idea where your "pointless questions and personal anecdotes" attacks come from. What "personal anecdote" did I talk about here?...
I buy what I find as the best bargain, and what I am most interested in at the time. Right now I am most interested in Sogdian, but just bought a...
Had too much drama in the gameroom for too long, and they decided to just shut it down. Too much uncontrolled chats that the drama would spill...
My input would be a "fine collection", while being a loose term, would normally be applied to a collection, (or subcollection if one has a very...
I know we disagree in general about Mr. Carr's "things", and out of respect for you Krispy I have refrained from posting in any threads about him...
I would go with the top coin. The main thing I remember as a diagnostic of these is the die cutter did not know it was a mask he was copying, and...
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