My favorite design*. It's a beauty! (*which is the reason for my avatar)
No need to pick out a particularly unflattering picture of her from this thread and re-post it.
The reverse was an awesome design. The obverse was ok. The 11-sided thing was weird -- I prehaps could have gotten used to it, but, alas, nobody...
FWIW, in Israel the smallest denomination is a "5 agorot" coin (100 agorot is 1 shekel). On the other hand, the 5 agorot coin is worth about 1.5...
Is the back of a dime an "all American" symbol?
Back during that short time frame when one could purchase, from the mint, rolls of dollar coins at cost (and free shipping) I would purchase $300...
I was around 10 and my dad gave me his Whitman coin folder with pennies. He only collected from circulation, but it completely fascinated me....
For person to person transactions, I almost always pay by check or PayPal (which is free when paying a friend or family member). When I stick...
Anything that’s post Barber and pre-what-we-have-now. In particular: Indian Head Cents. Mercury Dimes. Walking Liberty Halves (except that nobody...
Merging ideas from another thread. I think the real danger to future collecting is the trend toward a cashless society.
That’s sort of funny to read that in a blog dedicated to collecting coins. In fact it seems like most of us are jumping through some hoops or...
But even you were introduced, no?
Gosh. I didn’t even think of the part where one might seem a bit creepy. Yep, I need to think about that too.
Yeah, but it’s free shipping!! ;-)
That sounds like a wonderful idea! I would like to do something like that also, but how would you know if the youngster would care one whit about it?
But almost 200 views!
I was eight, and I remember my grandmother showing me the new coins. She had a bunch of quarters and put them on their edge and so I could see the...
That is an awesome story! (And those of us who knew ancestors who lived through the depression totally get it.) Although, I do hope there were...
Well, obviously. The guy on that dime is Mr. Barber!! :)
Kind of a tangent, but . . . there exist raw coins from 1805, 1807 that are worth only $5 in AU condition? What am I missing?
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