Really! How about this one? (Sorry for the poor photo.) :) [IMG][IMG] Anyone care to guess what I paid for it?
The fact that you get back 20 a day should tell you that they ARE useless and not wanted. If they weren't of such low value and useless you would...
You don't HAVE to stamp the note, it does make it more likely that someone else will notice the note and enter it on the site as well though.
I don't think you would be able to get that "color" off with anything short of a wire brush.
No it doesn't and as soon as you start trying to attribute it you start to realize that nothing is matching up Still I think this coin would fool...
Coin World Almanac, Sixth edition, 1990, pages 344 - 350 The Coin World Almanac is one of the best reference books in my library and I would not...
Explained in the first paragraph of the announcement, because by law they HAVE to make the bullion coins to satify the demand and the demand is...
Actually that was at the end of that period and the mintmarks returned th following year. The claim that the coin shortage was caused by...
I will probably be there.
It is not possible to tell a brass and a bronze coin apart by a visual inspection. Especially when you do not know the metal ratios used in the...
I show business strike coinage of 40% silver halves in San Francisco of 470,000 pieces in 1965 and 284,037 in 1966. No business strikes struck...
I have a copy somewhere, I've never used it.
And this may seem silly, but make sure we are talking about a PROOF set and not a MINT set. If it is truly a no S proof then CONGRATULATIONS!
You really want to know the background history behind the various US colonial issues then the book you want is Early Coins of America by Sylvester...
20 cents (4 P business strike 4 P satin, 4 D Business, 4 D satin, 4 S proof) 5 nickels (P & D Business, P & D Satin, S Proof) 6 dimes (P & D...
I prefer the 1970 hardbound first edition, the pictures are better.
Here's some trivia, did you know that the Denver mint is the only US mint that has been robbed? On December 19th, 1922 a Federal Reserve truck...
The Admiral Gardner coins are quite common but a neat and inexpensive piece of history.
Good trick if you an do it considering the star of david has six points and free masons has ten letters. Plus there is no F in the lettering...
The mint has a computer system in place that can handle say 50,000 service requests per day and it handles the normal daily load with ease. I...
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