Congratulations to you and the lad for that accomplishment! If my memory serves correctly (and it doesn’t always, these days), his name is Henry...
Sure beats the heck out of coin roll hunting, doesn’t it? Even if it is more physically demanding.
Oh, yes. Definitely. One of the "crown jewel" wantlist items for every American detectorist!
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I've got a lot of American eagles on coins. Who doesn't? 18th century: [IMG] [IMG]
Just shipped this one off yesterday, to one of my giveaway winners. [IMG] [IMG]
Ye Olde Quarter Master flings $50 and $100 bills around the same way I feed popcorn to seagulls.
This. For some reason, Bicentennial quarters seem to come up a lot in these "articles". 2.2 billion, huh? That's more than the several million...
She sounds like a keeper! The only coins I got were from my CT Secret Santa (aside from a bag of chocolate ones from my daughter). I didn't get...
That's how it happened. I guess I could have embellished the tale. Maybe the scammer customer was really a werewolf, and Bill Wright shot him...
Amen, Brother, and can I get a "hallelujah".
Well, sure, but it doesn’t have to be a big deal. You can take an eclectic approach and do a “freestyle” collection on almost any budget. In...
I think you'll find abandoning the fixed structure of "sets" liberating, once you get used to it. Going "freestyle" does take a little bit of...
Let's wait another ten years, and I'll be able to tell you. My time machine Delorean is in the shop. Busted flux capacitor. (Sorry- couldn't...
This is an old story of mine, which made the rounds on various blogs and newsletters when it got shared by other people. It came up in a...
My, that’s a rather brainy rabbit hole to go down.
I’ll make the highest compliment one collector can ever make to another: Hey, if you ever wanna sell that one… ;)
It’s definitely looking better after the subsequent photo editing.
Must’ve been. But when I said I recalled buying a plastic model airplane kit with a 5-shilingi coin like the one above, that’s the recollection...
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