The only foreign mint that I wanted to buy from was the Korean Mint, Komsco. When I looked at their website, all they really sold were medals,...
So THIS is where they got the idea from!
Here is the recent South Korean commemorative 3-coin issue for that country's 70th anniversary of liberation from the Empire of Japan in 1945....
I think that's it. Did that ever get published? I don't think so.
What was wrong with the old flag? Just wondering, cause I kind of like that one... [ATTACH]
Thanks for sharing. I have just got to go one of these years! That's your cat? A "Scottish Fold" I believe?
ONE dollar. Exactly.
I found this definition in an article at the E-Sylum Newsletter: coin dealers (n. phr.) Apt to believe themselves prey of cherrypickers....
World crowns? Well, it seems that's not exactly a "niche" that someone can really cherrypick from anymore. You can still cherrypick the arcane...
I once answered a question for Doug about Beth Deisher's book, Making the Grade. Even then, he wouldn't give me a like, so I don't think it's...
I'm thinking not just about the coin you're looking at but the dealer, too. If this dealer gets what he wants, who wins? Who loses? Who pays?
This is what I want to do, but it implies a major commitment to learning on the part of the collector. Reading can help a lot. However, doesn't...
Wow. Look at that... PVC really does eat away at coin surfaces!
You could use Verdi-Care. But there would still be damage to the surfaces of the coin if PVC really was present on the coin.
When you find out where all the good coin shops are, give an update here at CT, please! I made an informational webpage on coin shops in Seoul,...
All this "gluing and pasting"... I know that a member here at CT going by the handle "gxseries" makes virtual albums of his own coins. I...
Yes, the ANA book, or Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of US and Colonial Coins. ...Oh, I almost forgot "Making the Grade" (3rd edition, Top 80 most...
I got schooled on Canada Day, to boot!
And I think you may be able to do that with the CAPs system anyway: A person could ask the valleycoin.com people about custom page inserts that...
"Coin Collector" in both Korean alphabetic letters (hangul) and Chinese ideographic characters.
Separate names with a comma.