"Homer" was the key - I vaguely remembered that the main Odyssey character had a dog.
I grade it "I can't believe somebody graded that." You could barely break even on the cost at MS69RD.
I was amused that Jeopardy had a coin collecting category tonight. Here are the questions. They were not picked in order but arranged in order...
Well, this morning's email said it was $885,000 with BP. Now it's a $1,800,000 reserve amount, $2,160,000 with BP. Weird. Can they do that after...
I wonder if their label database had a 10 character limit for that field/column, hence "New Rochel". Back in the good old days data storage was...
Other PCGS slab versions show the date and spell out New Rochelle. NGC and ANACS show the date and spell out Rochelle, but I did find one NGC slab...
There's no date on the label?
Looks like it was made into some sort of clip, like a paper clip. Odd that the top and bottom were squared off. There's a line scribed into it as...
I won't ever inventory all of mine either. Some of the coins I inherited 50+ years ago just aren't worth the effort, and whoever's lap they end up...
Got this one in change at the ice cream parlor in the mid-70s. Run over by a Model T I guess. [ATTACH]
Semi-key date for cheap, I'll take it. [ATTACH]
Not here it isn't. [ATTACH]
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Marketing. Every new collector thinks they have to have it slabbed in order to be valuable.
I think it's like my wife, who always answers a question that I didn't ask.
As noted, the mint mark on the 21-S is in the wrong location. It either took a very coincidental hit that moved the metal almost a full with of...
The litter bothers me more.
Block and Company (the nickel rolls) is still in business and still selling coin wrappers. They've moved from Wheeling to Michigan....
I've told my story so many times, I should just find one of those posts and copy/paste. Grandpa was the head librarian at the Chicago Tribune....
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