I don't usually buy these "add on" items that the mint sells with the commemorative coins, but I made an exception here. This is a flip chart with...
Greetings fellow shut-ins. Tomorrow is a red letter day. At 7 AM sharp I get to go the food store for the official "senior hour." After that I...
It seems like the mint is working on a Reverse Proof type set on coin per year. Perhaps next year there will be a Reverse Proof dime followed by a...
The grading service price guides are marketing oriented. The truth is determined by what people pay. Years ago PCGS grading was more conservative...
It’s been that way for a long time, but some of them do well. When I gave up on all of the copper-nickel sets after the State Quarter series, I...
PCGS has a great deal more influence in the modern coin market than NGC. Some of that is justified; some of it isn’t. You can find coins just as...
I learn many things from coins, and they have inspired me to learn much more about British and ancient Roman history. I read that coins are...
It’s only different terminology as @GoldFinger1969 said.
I hope you are right. At any rate, Russia, with an economy slightly smaller than Italy, is trying to be “the mouse that roars” when it thinks the...
I admit to not knowing a lot about this, but design has late 19th century look to it. Sherman refused to get involved in politics (If nominated, I...
I agree with the AU-50 grade. Given grade-flation I am surprised it’s no higher.
Catalogers call it "an art deco eagle."
Very interesting. These early Proofs, before there were very many U.S. collectors, are quite exciting. The trouble is when it comes time to sell...
I didn’t write an article about this one, so I will just pose a picture. James Earl Frazer, of Buffalo Nickel fame, designed this handsome piece....
Here is what got me started on this collection. It was a "youth set" for the 50th anniversary of World War II. Sometimes the adults can learn...
Greetings, fellow prisoners! Today is April 104th. In normal terms that would be April 26, but since this month is 120 days long, adjustments are...
Maybe for most, but not for me. I have a small Civil War token collection of perhaps a couple hundred pieces. The big collections have 5,500 +...
Backing money with precious metal is not an effective strategy. All it can do is put a limit on the amount of money can be in circulation. That...
It's the rounded bust. The 1859 Indian Cent has the pointed bust, but since they all do, it doesn't matter. Here is an 1859 Indian. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It has some nice album toning after a dip long ago. It's what the late Boston coin dealer, Don Romano, called "original now." There is nothing...
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