Yes... @Kentucky is dead right. Most dealers (not all) do anticipate some dickering to take place. This ain’t Wal-mart... Now I wouldn’t go in...
Glad I asked. Reckon I’ll be shopping for a better book. Thanks.
Been thinking about this one. It’s a mystery to be certain. I also like to play with old cars. The current rage is what’s called “Rat Rods”. The...
I have to admit. I been collecting a long time and prior to joining this forum, I was not aware cardboard albums were acidic to our coins. The...
Funny thing... For years I thought mint sets from the 50’s and 60’s came in those Hard plastic Capitol holders. I rather like proof sets from that...
Ahhh heck.... If my second Cousins great grandmothers brothers yardhand passed down a story of a lost gold dollar somewhere out on the south forty...
Isn’t this exactly the scenario that each of us dreams of? I get childlike giddy at the thought. Being the first person in a century and a half to...
Take solace in the fact that those $3800.00 cents are quite rare. Of the billions minted a mere handful may command a premium such as that. You...
Wish I still had my mini ball collection. In my younger days they were plentiful and somewhat easy to find detecting. I had about a quarter full...
That and the most widely used firearms of the era were muzzle loaders that were terribly inconsistent. Under battlefield conditions, who knows how...
I remember wondering the same thing when I viewed the piece. To my recollection, I don’t remember seeing an obvious deformation that would have...
Being a history as well as a coin lover fortunate enough to live in a state covered in history, I was excited when the H.L. Hunley submarine was...
That is awesome!!! You need to purchase a lottery ticket while you are still hot!
Would be the well worn 1959 Franklin half my mom handed me to buy school lunch with in the late 1960’s. I went hungry that day and began this...
Aside from the PC spin of the whole thing that I will withhold my feelings on.... I rather think this is something of an imaginative/creative step...
Bet a dollar to a donut that cent was in one of our nations finest paratroopers pockets at one time. And as others have said, that image was added...
I do totally missed this whole Cheerios dollar phenomenon. Now I gotta go empty out that giant bag of gold dollars in the bottom of my safe and...
One thing I know for certain. If I were thirsty and needed a drink out of a vending machine, that old quarter would not get me there. I don’t...
I used to scoff at the thought of coin roll searching... That was until last week... I helped a friend with his inherited collection. He was not a...
Welcome! Sounds like you are already firmly entrenched in this lifelong passion called coin collecting. And how cool is it that you worked for the...
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