Because they're so closely related, they got similar names, back before names were systematic (constructed according to well-specified rules)....
I've seen reports of a bank offering $105 for $100 worth of change. I don't think it's common at the moment.
Those pictures aren't (just) out of focus, they're over-compressed. Hard to say anything just on their basis.
I'm with @l.cutler and @John Burgess -- I see a lot of wheat cents, a common Indian cent, and an 1868 Indian cent. I don't have time to squint at...
Pro: it would be a lot easier for you to carry off. Con: it would be a lot easier for someone else to carry off.
Oh, hi. Hey, weren't we supposed to be calling you platinumcollector as of last July?...
Heck no! Or if they do, it's not the same alloy used in cents.
When I saw this design a year or so ago, my first thought was "...but why is Lady Liberty's head exploding?" From the perspective of 2020, at...
I see no "...by a moderator" on the edit note. It's kind of bad form to back-quote someone after they've thought better of what they said, IMHO.
But what could be more universally useful than the venerable one-cent coin? Oh. Yeah. Um. :rolleyes:
Note, though, that he also had "an old farm". Yeah, it gives you a place to store your metal, but it's also real estate... ;)
As far as using copper to speculate or store value -- I look at the "nice suit" argument that gold bugs use all the time ("an ounce bought a nice...
And plumbing. And refrigeration. And HVAC. And, unlike silver and photographic film at the turn of the century, none of these markets seem...
This is an excellent point. As gold gets higher, the difference in price between common and better dates (or conditions) shrinks. But, again,...
We'll see who's laughing when all the zombie-apocalypse preppers realize that there's no such thing as zombies, but they're being overrun by...
Which of course leads us to the real path to wealth: figure out how to make people listen to a sentence like that and not find it...
Oh, there's a Mint error involved, all right -- the Mint failed to bust the perpetrators and confiscate the novelty.
Twitter showed a name I didn't recognize trending this afternoon. Apparently it's a new Fed board appointee, one who's said favorable things about...
I've heard the same thing, and I think it's terrible advice. "Buy the keys first" is a misconception based on reading old Red Book prices and...
I've been meaning to try ultrasonic cleaning, but haven't. I've seen hints here that the big grading companies sometimes use it as part of their...
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