Cool to find a Fugio at that price. Due to its tie with Ben Franklin, it was one of the few US coins I still had a itch to scratch. I picked up a...
I remembered that story quite clearly from a publication about 20-25 years ago concerning the "missing" fifth 1913, (before it was found), and why...
The mint had plenty of internal controls. Heck, PM coinage was delayed in 1793 due to employees unable to post the required bonds set forth in the...
Isn't there one in the cornerstone of the old mint. :) I thought I read that all 1870 coins were placed in the cornerstone when it was laid.
US mail actually used to be exactly how you shipped things like that. The Morgans shipped to smelters around 1918 were actually mailed there. It...
Agree. From what I read it's about when the coins were delivered to the coin counter, so legally distributed. That is what declares eagles legal...
I agree. Btw as an aside I believe it was one copper trial of the buffalo, since I thought I remember Col Green having a custom holder with six...
The mint always had to be prepared. 1907-1916 was kind of a mess, with approvals coming last second or last second not coming at all. I never...
Yeah, but my daughter is named Irene. It's the highest grade portrait of the empress Irene I have. :)
Why not have an addiction to old bronze? I love it, finding it much warmer than silver or gold coins.
Don't pay as much attention to busts, but can say I don't think I have ever seen a spread quadriga for him. I associate the type in my mind with...
Yeah, one of the best animal coins I have seen in a long time. If I see one at a coin show I will buy one for the kids. I was at an auction...
@Collecting Nut , maybe think about ancients. No "holes" to fill except ones you choose. What you are going through, anxiety driven by decisions...
Oh man, you hater. :) This one is probably at the top of my bucket list right now, many others having dropped off the last few years....
I agree of course. If @Cherd wishes to protect them, that is his right. I am simply in the other camp, like @expat feeling that handling these...
I would simply say sir to browse major sales. Coin after coin in the same state of preservation. Honestly, our belief "real" coins should be worn...
So is CNG tag, or HJB, Leu, Roma, and many other firms. You can still get a coin a professional judges as authentic AND still hold it in your hand. :)
Lol I have done the same. Digging through one of the SDBs and found a baggy of 6 similar coins, European gold. No memory whatsoever of buying them.
Reader's Digest tokes they sent out in the 1960s is way more obviously a fake, yet continue to bring people to Cointalk when heirs run across...
Not a fan of dispensing these for 2 Euro. 20 years from now their heirs will find them, look up heritage sale prices, and think they struck it...
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