Huh. I've never encountered one that charged admission. Admittedly, I don't get to many, and those I have attended outside of Raleigh were pretty...
Thank you for helping to keep things on track, particularly with your informative post upthread about the virtues of urban living (containing not...
And I still disagree. The circle of life in numismatics is the same as it ever was. Kids get interested when they find coins in circulation, or...
Let's put it this way. Dealers at our local show pay $100 to have a table from which they can deal; customers get in free. Do you really think...
I'd have to disagree here. It seems to me that it's been about this grey for a long, long time. I went to my first show over 40 years ago, and...
I can think of a lot of reasons that coin collecting might be weighted toward older folks. First, money -- typically, you don't have much until...
AKA "buy low, sell high"? :)
Funny, that. I just went back and re-read the first page of the thread, and yours was clearly the first post that "went negative". TheCoinGeezer...
I find it hard to equate "posting an article about coin show etiquette to a discussion forum" with "sending a do's and don'ts list to my...
I guess, based on the posts so far in this thread, we can add another suggestion: if you come across people discussing general advice, and your...
The rarest I have is a Jane Pierce First Spouse uncirculated gold, mintage right at 3,333 -- but nobody cares about the series, and so it's not...
Sorry to hear about your prognosis...? I tried some dateless buffs in white vinegar. Most were showing restored date and other details within a...
Here's an interesting table that I can't quite believe I never came across before: Mohs scale of mineral hardness, with intermediate substances...
I apologize for adding to your burden.
[ATTACH] Time to go to bed. :)
Until silver's run-up a few years ago, it was actually fairly common to find silver halves in rolls. Since they barely circulate, and since most...
He could be using any of those, or a candle, or a magnesium flare. If he shoots with auto-white-balance, and part of the image is RED and part of...
OK for me now, too -- go figure. Nice find. I'd take an "apparently cleaned" example like that over a standard slick Barber any day -- not sure...
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If you put a white coin on a red background, and leave your camera set for auto white balance, the coin will come out looking blue. There's...
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