Lucky. I've already outlived nearly all of my ancestors. :( Kidding aside, today sentiment is overwhelmingly against cleaned or damaged coins. A...
One from an old thread: [IMG] And one from another old thread: [IMG] [IMG]
I no longer even notice when I come across listings for "commerative" coins, because I think that misspelling is nearly as common as the correct...
But how much did gold coins really "circulate"? It seems to me that most people don't (and didn't) want to routinely carry "relevant value",...
This is true, of course. But people always wanted a ten-cent coin with less than one-tenth the weight, and a 25-cent coin with less than...
Looks like something shot with the wrong color balance to me. Sorry I don't recognize the design.
Ah, the joys of flat-rate Priority Mail. :) (Although I don't know how that works from Hawaii!) I'll be very interested to hear what you find. I...
Okay, just to make sure I'm following along: You bought this as a 5-ounce silver coin from eBay. You weighed it with a scale set for standard...
<raises hand>
If anything, looks like an S to me. But more likely just random texture.
I had to go back and read this three times before I saw it as "Kennedy dollars" rather than "Kennedy halves". "Hmm, I've occasionally seen $20...
Do you have a hammer and a nail?
Before you fire up that drill, please realize that your scale appears to be reporting "oz", not "ozt", and that 5 troy ounces is about 5.48...
Washers? Mint-state Seated Liberty coins?
Persistere.
I've been getting some bright and lustrous 2015-Ds in change over the last few weeks that have atrocious die deterioration. I should try to get...
Wear hits the edges hardest. Take a look at some slick Barber dimes sometime -- you can probably get 70 of them stacked into a tube that's...
Yes, that's true, unfortunately. It makes the NC resident's problem sort of the opposite of the California resident -- we get socked if our...
Yes, I think I remember that list, or something like it, from my pre-Internet childhood as well. I'm curious about its origin too, but I imagine...
I'm shocked, shocked to discover that some of the tactics dealers use to "comply" with local tax laws are themselves of questionable legality. Or,...
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