Everyone wants to protect their investments, of course, but if you don't buy things that you enjoy then this hobby will become intolerably boring...
One of these finally came my way - the one year type Japanese Yen Dragon with the Emperor Taisho's name on it rather than Meiji's. This was the...
Ah, so they are all non-circulating according to the link - a collector's only offering. That makes more sense. The mint must make plenty of money...
Somewhere, sadly I don't remember where, Grover Norquist led a movement to replace FDR with Reagan on the dime. This was after Reagan's death, of...
I have every Kookaburra back to the first issue and the previous issues' values seem to keep rising beyond their silver price. Every time I see an...
Yes, Edward VI portrait coins have something ineffably appealing about them. I picked up these two a while ago. I honestly can't remember what I...
Well, that was the year that the British burned Washington D.C. almost to the ground, so perhaps that "feature" is somewhat appropriate. But later...
This is one of those interesting situations I've also found myself in. Did you do anything wrong by buying and flipping the coin? Not really. Was...
After reading "Numismatic Forgery" by Charles Larson and hearing about more and more examples of forgeries of extremely valuable coins getting...
TOUCHDOWN!!!!!
I forgot to mention @DallasCoinsNThings that it was purchased as a "head of 1794."
Fantastic! Thank you for the responses! All of my numismatic reading over the years has emphasized leaving a coin alone unless some drastic...
I recently acquired this 1794 Large Cent which, yes, has been cleaned, compromised and has probably been through some historic trials and...
1794 Large Cent - probably G5 - G6, but good enough for me (pun maybe intended?) - it was very likely cleaned at some point and my favorite part,...
1858-O 50¢ graded XF45 by PCGS. From the era of James Buchanan - not too far from Lincoln and the Civil War... this thing has seen some turbulent...
Pickups from a local show today - my first in quite a while. 1872 Half Dime graded AU58 by PCGS [IMG] [IMG] And then why not throw in a few...
The direction of text on Japanese coins changed in 1948, right to left became left to right, so it's easy to get confused because flipping the...
What years are the notes? Smaller sized silver certificates were printed from 1928 to 1964. This site talks about these "experimental" small...
1950-D Franklin 50¢ graded MS 63 FBL by NGC. [IMG] [IMG]
Thanks for the responses and advice, everyone. I did a sort of a tally of the responses and, given some interpretive license, this is how I see...
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