... Reaching into the muck and narrowly avoiding a cut finger from a piece of submerged broken glass he doesn't see, the homeowner picks up the...
@Milesofwho - you're actually a bit closer to the truth than you probably expected to be. Now remember, after 128 years buried in the ground,...
Impressive coin counts, y'all! Good work! I used to use my grubby dug clads for vending or ciggie money, back in the day (a pack of Cavaliers...
Intermission. You may now guess at the identity of the object he is about to pick up, if you want to. (You almost certainly won't be right.)...
... The homeowner's eye returns to the bottom of the strongbox. In the fluorescent lighting of the garage, he sees something gleaming there....
A King Farouk pedigree would be cool. What's the coin? Sure, those are both fairly well known pedigrees.
All right, let's see if we can't wrap this absurd pink elephant of a story up. Breakfast and shower, maybe, first.
You do tend to make understatements. :rolleyes:;)
Yes, but it is difficult to say how much without seeing a picture. And even then, the answer will be rather vague. Probably the best indicator...
Dunno. Guess I'll have to make that up as I go along, too. ;)
I've owned one Eliasberg coin, but it was raw, not slabbed. You might be surprised to learn where I kept it. John Quincy Adams on an ancient...
I believe the top-ranked collections in some of the major sets in the PCGS and NGC Registry programs are eligible for pedigreed labels. I know...
Admirable, if any of your kids are interested in the hobby. Neither of mine are, so I'll just have to cross my fingers and hope for an...
Thanks. Guilty as charged. Clickbait to the max, though with fewer pictures. :rolleyes: But coin-related clickbait, at least! :woot:
Where are we? Oh yeah. We've covered the Confederate currency and the silver, pretty much. There's still those Mason jars... Know I said I'd...
Oh, how well I know. Case in point: take Hurricane Irma last year, for example. (The storm that blew down those trees in the picture I posted in...
Yes, this is - as previously announced - a heavily embellished (fictionalized) tale. But like many Hollywood blockbusters, it does come prefaced...
Meh. There are only nine Bust halves in the hoard. They're great coins, but ... ;)
... The silver dollars are Spanish Milled Dollars, and they were struck in Mexico City at the end of the colonial era. Later, when he reads...
... There are eight other Capped Bust half dollars in the box, and these date from 1812 to 1836, though this will not be known until the entire...
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