Rather than separating the metals most coins are used as alloy or chill scrap. A lot of silver and gold get refined but base metal coins are...
I knew I preferred #2 even as #1 was still loading. The soft luster on #2 is probably caused mostly by the haze which would probably come off...
LOL. I'm still wondering who made money demoting Pluto. Astronomers always knew Pluto was a little different so why does this suddenly mean...
It might be nit picking but I would say that since the authorizing legislation preceded the adoption of the Constitution that the fugio can not be...
A lot of people have been doing this for years. Between the destruction of proof sets and them being sold in vast numbers to the general public...
" Actually $15 is optimistic. You can get $18 for nice pristine sets but very very few are untarnished now days. If you ship a bunch of...
The premiums on mint sets have been soaring in the last year. They have gone from an average of about 20C over face value on the '68 to '80 sets...
I agree that it looks like rare classic US coins have recovered almost all their losses since 2016 in a very short period of time. It might be...
I collect the '65 to date cents in Gem and concentrate on the zincolns. Some of the modern cents are getting quite scarce in pristine condition...
Probably a grinding wheel. A great number of these are misidentified as being "dryer coins". It's usually impossible to be certain unless there...
After WWII one country after another switched to base metal coinage. Some switched in 1946 and some not until 1968 but they all changed. The...
Usually those low mintages mean that they all went into the mint set so will be common. Moderns are a topsy turvy arena where high mintages are...
Most moderns from all over the world simply weren't saved and are very hard to find in pristine condition. Most were poorly made so nice coins...
I've been buying foreign mint sets for many years but the rarities were hard to find. The Indian mint sets were only a dollar or two each but I...
And herein is the real key to everything and even life itself; do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. If everyone runs to starboard you...
I was buying lake perch for 9c a pound when I moved out of my parents house. Fish was always the least expensive meat so I ate a lot of it. All...
I'd agree that money production should keep up with population increases but it should probably lag it since few babies have income. Any more...
There's no such thing as "healthy inflation". All inflation is destructive. All inflation robs people of their earnings and savings. It...
I'm not very political either but it has become impossible to complain about the greed and corruption without everyone taking it as a political...
[IMG] - I love the art work on this coin. ...And the work of art. It comes on several different coins and denominations.
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