Awesome, I always like your posts. And I welcome the conversations that don't include politics. Congratulations on 25,000.
I have two folders. One has the coins in 2 X 2's, either cardboard or flips. They have a number on them that corresponds to a description page...
I like Photoscape. You can crop and combine with ease. [ATTACH]
Me too!
The only grading system I use is eye appeal.
Yes, just the variety that was available made it very interesting. You weren't getting rare coins every day, but a handful of change might include...
Here is an older post where I described how I was distributing to my grandchildren and great grandchildren. Of course, there are many more now....
Wash your hands soon.
Thanks CN.
@Jim Dale Thanks for the feedback. Great story. I have 23 great grandchildren and 14 grandchildren. Your suggestion is a good idea, but I keep...
I still don't pay attention to pain. Unless it is extreme, pain is nothing but a message that said something went wrong. If you got hit in the leg...
Yes, I remember putting small pieces of paper under coins to keep them in the album. Way back days for sure.
I posted what became a Featured Post some time back. If anyone is interested in what it was like back in the late 40's and 50's I am posting a...
One thing most of us didn't do was spend money on magazines and other periodicals. The extra money we had went to coins.
Early on we had a group of kids my age that had swap meets. We didn't buy or sell. But we did trade according to scarcity. There weren't any local...
The extra letters on the reverse appear to be raised. This would mean that it was hit with a die or while on a die.
I think it happened at the mint. It looks to have been crushed against a die. The lettering on the reverse is raised.
Notice that the curved indention on the obverse matched with the curved damage on the reverse. Strange.
You need to really like them and plan to keep them. They are worth very little after a couple of years.
I have been through two ten year runs of quarters and will never do it again. To get a set you will need Uncirculated, Proof, Silver, Reverse...
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