Image below came from the "showcase" thread here on CT. As a kid this was a magical coin to me even though I have never owned one. Just now...
Miss RachelRuth..... I am not a cent errors guy at all so I usually don't respond to your threads. I do hope you find an awesome cent one day that...
Ha... I do wish I had about five more of the Gibson RD basses that I bought in 1977 for $180.00.
I have posted this before. I am posting it again to illustrate an answer to your question...... Collecting toned coins is like collecting anything...
Oh heavens no!!!! It is not OK to polish a coin with a buffing wheel!!! Thing is, the current view of coin conservation is miles apart from that...
Well.... Honestly I am not a contemporary coin guy and am certainly not a Lincoln cent expert. I think you do have some nice cents there. But no,...
if The market you want to reach is those purchasing investment grade coins.... Then yes I don’t think you have any choice but to go to the expense...
He is absolutely correct. I own an MS65 Type One Standing Liberty. It had some dark toning around the edge years ago that has significantly...
What is the giveaway? I have quite the “tribe” of Indian $5.00 and $2.50 pieces. I can usually sniff out a fake and this one isn’t setting off...
I totally get the risk involved. I will say I have engaged in maybe a dozen or better purchases with CT members in the thousands of dollars in the...
I had always been a bit melancholy that I didn’t save a roll or two of the Indy quarters. Rather partial to the racing theme. If you don’t strike...
If I needed the spendable cash now I would likely take the offer.... Only because the pot of my gut tells me high grade coin prices may be...
Having apparently been living under a rock prior to joining CT.... Is a challenge coin something presented in the military for accomplishing a...
When you say old fakes... In my mind that would be prior to the rise of the Chinese market wouldn’t it? That’s something of a recent phenomenon...
Used to be it was exciting to see a new and innovative design from the US mint. It’s getting a bit ordinary and mundane now to see a continual...
I sort of don’t agree with that. All the low lying areas of this Morgan seem to be affected with this reddish sort of haze/grime. Back when her...
Funny thing. My mom lives in a trailer park. Today UPS delivered the gold coin Mother’s Day necklace I had made for her. Nervously, I did not...
Those packaged steel cent displays are almost always reprocessed. I have several of them. I still love em..... I would bet that cent was struck...
Ha!! That's cool to me. As a youngster that didn't have digital toys to keep my brain occupied I created (mostly havoc) my own ways to keep busy....
I once picked up (carefully) a glued together block of change at the car wash. I am guessing a driver spilled his drink in the console on his...
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