Ah, the joys of flat-rate Priority Mail. :) (Although I don't know how that works from Hawaii!) I'll be very interested to hear what you find. I...
Okay, just to make sure I'm following along: You bought this as a 5-ounce silver coin from eBay. You weighed it with a scale set for standard...
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If anything, looks like an S to me. But more likely just random texture.
I had to go back and read this three times before I saw it as "Kennedy dollars" rather than "Kennedy halves". "Hmm, I've occasionally seen $20...
Do you have a hammer and a nail?
Before you fire up that drill, please realize that your scale appears to be reporting "oz", not "ozt", and that 5 troy ounces is about 5.48...
Washers? Mint-state Seated Liberty coins?
Persistere.
I've been getting some bright and lustrous 2015-Ds in change over the last few weeks that have atrocious die deterioration. I should try to get...
Wear hits the edges hardest. Take a look at some slick Barber dimes sometime -- you can probably get 70 of them stacked into a tube that's...
Yes, that's true, unfortunately. It makes the NC resident's problem sort of the opposite of the California resident -- we get socked if our...
Yes, I think I remember that list, or something like it, from my pre-Internet childhood as well. I'm curious about its origin too, but I imagine...
I'm shocked, shocked to discover that some of the tactics dealers use to "comply" with local tax laws are themselves of questionable legality. Or,...
North Carolina has no threshold -- any purchase of coins or PM, no matter how large or small, is taxable (unless you're buying from the US mint...
Keeping in mind, please, that his most-cited five-point summation is not something that he actually wrote, and that his own theses seem rather at...
Exactly. There are some rare examples where dime was accidentally struck at the Mint with a cent die; those are valuable. On those coins, though,...
If I'm remembering correctly, he's planning to roll it into one of the ultimate high risk/high reward vehicles: a new business. To which I say, as...
Followup: the CSR I spoke to on the 28th said I should hear back in 24-48 hours. I've heard nothing. I've been meaning to escalate, but it's been...
The three 40% coins contain a good bit more silver than the one 90%. You lose some advantage, though, because 40% silver trades at a discount --...
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