That reminds me of the line from lyrics from the song "Mack the Knife" in "Three Penny Opera." "The rich always win back what they pay." I'm not...
The lower velocity of money rate (the number of times a dollar is spent in a year to put it simply.) is the reason why we have not been drowned...
That was what people thought in the late 19th century. I guess I have to take the 5th Amendment here. Things will get too political.
Here is "details coin" of all details coins for the 1792 half disme. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, I used to keep up with them, but now I have given up. Like the old days (1892 to 1954), some of them should never have been issued because...
You can't pull people out of their time and expect them to conform to your standards. What you can do is learn from the missteps they made and...
Why don't the use image of her on the OP? That is much more attractive than the one I have seen on the mock-ups of the bill.
If you go back to the 1940s through the 1970s, Andrew Jackson was an icon. His reputation was build considerably by the book The Age of Jackson by...
The best way to learn to tell the difference between mint errors and post mint damage is the learn how coins are made. That way you can more...
If it wasn’t damaged, and most of them are, that was pretty cheap.
NGC VF-30
This was the mint's first tentative step in getting back into issuing commemorative coins. The facility issued large numbers of them so it's not a...
The 1792 half disme is a regular issue coin because of George Washington's 1792 message to Congress about a "small beginning in coin" where he...
It actually depends on when it was graded. When I started out as a dealer in the mid 1990s, you could find coins like this with minor marks in...
Since others have posted parts of their type sets, I have decided to post my half dimes. I have been a huge fan of the early half dimes since I...
Yes, I agree with that. The fact that the coin pleases you is more important than the grade on the slab.
Unfortunately the Gobrecht Dollar is considered to be a type too. With a mint of 1,000 in 1836 and 600 more in 1837, many think of it as a regular...
My Claudius coin comes with a portrait of his dear fourth wife, Agrippa the Younger, who fed him a nice plate of poisonous mushrooms. She was such...
After accessing access to the EBay auction, I have to say that coin looks incredible for a New Orleans Mint from the 1890s. Is it worth $49...
Gone! Try to post photos if you can instead of links. It helps us more.
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