Hey, what do you know about ducats? ;) Your mention of huge 100 ducat coins ran me off to Google, which quickly ran me right back here. :)
Yup. I saw it in the small at yesterday's show, where a child was counting out dimes to buy a cent in a 2x2, a guy my age was adding up all his...
Time again to start gnawing at the question of whether deliberate toning can be anything but "artificial" toning... :rolleyes:
"General circulation" begs for begging the question. In the US, I don't think any coin with a denomination higher than $20 has "generally...
If there weren't other forces at play, $1000 and even $5000 or $10000 bills would take care of that issue. In 1944, you could've paid for that...
I won't repost the images again, but here are four stages of PMD, illustrated with Liberty nickels...
It's already become the new dime. But even if it loses another 90% of its value, there will still be people fighting for continued production of...
A bit quiet this year, and somewhat fewer dealers -- the stands that are normally separate at the back (ANACS, Barber/Seated Collectors, etc.) are...
I was planning to make it over yesterday (show runs Friday-Sunday), but stuff intervened. I need to retrieve my daughter at 10, but I should get...
Classic illustration of "we know how to gas slabbed coins, but aren't very good at it".
So, McDonald's "Almost Food Free"? If I'd heard about this, I might have actually dropped by for some fries. It's been a long, long time since...
Both fake. Wherever you bought them, stop shopping there.
Yes, I can see what you see. I can also see an "S" or an "8" above and to the right of the S mint mark, a tilted 1 pointing away from the S in the...
Every once in a long while -- every few years -- a new error, one that isn't in the books, gets discovered. People who just let their "eyes do...
I think you're doing the right things to remove the damaging "gunk" from the coin, but the damage it's left is permanent. I don't think there's...
Yup.
Doesn't seem to be. I think the only things illegal to melt are cents and (75/25) nickels. I believe war nickels are explicitly fair game at this...
And yet nearly all of us choose it over the alternative...
I like gambling on "cull lots" myself. I know next to nothing about early copper, but I'll be interested to hear what others have to say about it....
Also, I'll grant that sterling is different. A bar or lump of .925 is easier to deal with than a pile of ugly forks and candlesticks. But I still...
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