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I am more into the german municipal issues. (The french issues are interesting and I do collect them but they are much tougher to locate.) As...
Of couse the next generation can continue the hobby. As long as there are a couple of collectors the hobby will endure. What most of you are...
Try heroin, it's cheaper and less addictive. :rolleyes:
Many mints no longer create their own strip or planchets. They buy them from outside suppliers. So they no longer have the furnaces and...
I've worked it out several times using different methods and different assumptions and I get a range of answers from a low of around 1.2 million...
There is no way it could be as popular as the state quarters. Hard to be popular when almost no one will ever see them. A couple of the reasons...
If there isn't an obvious seam visible after lose examination then Cladking's explaination is the most likely answer. Internal defects such as...
Actually there is evidence that there were ways that the coins could have left legally. Actually Swit never said who or how he acquired the...
If you assumed zero cost to seperate the metals, a 40% silver half contains $1.06 worth of silver at $7 per oz. The copper in the coin is worth...
And if you live in a state that does apply sales tax to coins and buy coins by mail from another state to avoid the sales tax, you will most...
Define pittance. These things are available in China in quantity for $2 apiece or less. If he sells it for $15 he's made a 700% return on his...
True, the shipping fee used to be included in the price of the set/coin. But of course that meant if you bought one set you paid one shipping...
The government DID conduct tests on zinc plated steel in 1942 but the dies used were not the same as the production Lincolns but I do not believe...
Close. By law the eagle must appear on all COINS with denominations higher than a DIME unless the legislation authorizing the design change...
True there is no difference in the quality of the material in the rolls, but in the uture I would expect the Mint wrapped rolls to sell for at...
If you are a smoker, the "golden tone" on your coins may not be toning at all but instead a layer of nicatine tar deposited on the surface of the...
Overweight silver and gold planchets had their weight adjusted using a file before striking. This was not done on copper coins. In the...
I strongly suspect this is one of those base metal counterfeits from China that has been abused. The surfaces, the lettering and the rims all...
Actually try 9 years. The mint sold US olympic coin dies that just had an X cut across the face of the dies. These dies sold out very quickly...
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