I have often joked that everytime I bid or even take an interest in something in a Heritage Auction that the prices go crazy. I too thought that...
A couple of days ago, someone asked me to show an example of "white gold." Here is the best I could do using photographs as opposed to showing you...
There one thing about the coins, in year or so, the medal detector guys won't be able to find them. Like people it is "dust to dust."
This is medal, not a token, but it is one of the largest items I have. This is the medal in copper that the U.S. Congress awarded to Zachary...
Nobody cared about rotated dies until a few years ago. It's not unusual on the early U.S. coinage. I wish I had the 1804 dime that goes with that...
I have written most of these for my local club over the years. The second part of the Kennedy Half Dollar had to be revised and extended because I...
It's out there under "Part 2."
Probably not, but I could put something together. Since I’m house-bound, it’s no like I have a lot of distractions. Trouble is, I am to go-to guy...
I bought the 2014 gold Kennedy Half Dollar because the 1964 coin met a lot to me when I was young collector. That was the first new design that...
The Roosevelt dime would remain unchanged from 1946 until 1965. By that time the price of silver had risen to point where Congress had to act. The...
In 1860 chief mint engraver, James Longacre, redesigned the half dime and dime. He moved the legend, "United States of America," from the reverse...
In the mid 1830s mint director Robert Maskell Patterson decided that the time had come to replace the Capped Bust design, which had appeared on...
In 1807 Jon Reich was hired as a designer and die maker at the mint. One of his assignments was to re-design every coin that was then in...
Wednesday is my day to "go out into the world." I get to go to the food store and the post office. For the rest of week I stay at hom. I don't...
I guess I missed that one. I’ve only been around the Baltimore Show fiascos. What was it about?
A Julius Caesar portrait coin is on my to do list. The trouble is i need to compromise between quality and the expense. Here is my one Caeasr...
There is an electrian here in Florida who is offering to hang people's Christmas lights for free now in and effort to cheer people up. The best...
Here is another Indian Quarter eagle that received the MS-64 grade. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A dealer agreed with the grade. I got MS-64 money for it...
Like the squirrel from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Story,” it’s “GONE!!”
NGC can be generous at times, but then again PCGS is getting generous too. It’s called “grade-flatiron.” Some of what I’ve seen from CAC approved...
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