Enjoy some fine southern hospitality while you are here, Ed. I wish you were closer to me. I would treat you to lunch. Lots of history in the...
Something magical about that Carson City mintmark. Puts my mind right back into an old west saloon. Very cool buck.
Look at the edge of the JFK half. It may have been plated for one reason or another.
I think the sterile feel comes from the CAD technology used to design these days. It’s the same reason modern music all sounds sterile. It’s the...
For forty years I was perfectly satisfied collecting below average and very worn coins. I too was mesmerized by the history in my hands. Wasn’t...
Those labels are done to dazzle the eye of the casual collector. Welcome back.
Let me just offer this. I am a collector of old coins and am not nearly as well schooled on modern errors as some here on the board….. Beginning...
Wasn't much of a Pretenders listener back in the day.... But sure did like to watch em'... Nudge-nudge. Wink-wink...
You are living right, LordM!
It does appear that one may have had a minor misaligned die when it was struck.... But the smooth reverse and all the chatter on the obverse are...
Oh jeez…. I forgot. I failed arithmetic…
I would like to know that too. I have a slab with the same pedigree. Maybe one day I’ll spend some time going down rabbit holes to see if I can...
What a beautiful 130 year old hunk-O-silver. Lovey coin LordM and I am sorta partial to those seared gals anyway.
LOL!!!!! Totally not an IT guy.... But I was in fact stuck in the CT purgatory my first two weeks here until somebody took sympathy on my...
So do we stay tuned into this thread to wait for the eye candy to pop up?
Same thing happened to me when I joined. Because the email is an automated email from the website, it gets stripped out sometimes by firewalls and...
If we would have only had Google back then.
Odd collecting habits? My numismatic purchases are much like the way I saw girls when I was fifteen. They are all beautiful and I want them all.
Sweet set, Dave!! I had that very same Whitman folder when I was a kid. The cardboard disk they stuck in the 1913 hole set me off on my very first...
After 1982, I won’t dare attempt to grade a cent. The profile is so shallow and the copper layer so inconsistent that I would never dare make that...
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