It looks like a fun project. Maps like this were very popular when the State Quarter series was being issued. I saw a number of varieties of them.
I never got into the FBL thing. I was happy if all of the coins in the set were Uncirculated. I guess the 1953-S is the big one for FBL? Some...
You would be surprised how much dealers want for those circulated sets at the shows. I don't understand it because if you are willing to pay that...
This is by far the most I ever spent on an old ANACS slab. This $10 gold piece is very scarce minor type coin that was issued in 1838 and for part...
The opposite is true for most all collectors of U.S. coins. They prefer certified coins, especially if the piece is fairly valuable. It is now...
Actually the low mintages for the silver dollars in 1893 was not a direct result of the Panic of 1893; it was a response to it. The Sherman Silver...
The PCGS, CoinFacts values tend to be high. I learned that the hard way, and it seems that they are getting more out of whack, not less. They now...
The surveys don’t seem to do much good. The mint has become more greedy, more interested in serving the speculators and flippers than the...
If you believe that these “unsearched” lots of coins are really “unsearched,” I have a bridge to Brooklyn to sell you. This type of advertising...
Mint marks were omitted in 1965 to discourage collectors from taking more coins from circulation for their collections and for dealer and...
From what I've read, the bad stuff didn't happen until Jackson's successor, Martin Van Buren, took office on March 4, 1837. It was known as the...
The 1792 half disme was the introduction of the decimal system of coinage in the United States. The reale was part of that system only to the...
Your idea a of three cent multiple chart is a good one. The Spanish system, with the pieces of eight, had far more influence in The United States...
The color is great, but the rims are a mess. It’s still a junk box item.
I see evidence of friction in the right and left in the right and left obverse fields and to a lesser extent, the reverse. You can see original...
No there was no break in the issuance of the half dime. Only the design changed.
Sorry, but I am not 100% sure about that. There appears to a group of marks in the mint mark area. [ATTACH] I am not saying that the mint mark...
My grade would be EF-40, but I imagine that it's higher than that. I would say EF-45, but it has a few more marks in the fields than I would like...
Tell me about it.
One of my big purchases at the Winter FUN Show was this Feuchtwanger three cent piece that features "the defiant eagle." [ATTACH] This one of...
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