I have two boxes of Lincoln pennies. I have usually gone through these for wheat cents and Canadian cents but the yield keeps getting lower and...
This question about percentage of gold is way out of my pay grade. I'm still having a hard time telling the different between coins that are MS...
Sorry, I meant to offer some thoughts. What a great post with wonderful photos. Years ago I was teaching a course in Rome. On a night off, I...
Just a thought from me, IMHO. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my Dad, soaking some stamps off envelopes and getting others through...
But hubs can press dies and the Fed presses make money.... Sorry, gotta go I'm pressed for time
Had never done this before...usually it's jeans and a beat-up shirt.. Wow! The incredible politeness and respect I received. I asked, please, may...
Good timing on your note--I just sent an email complimenting the bank workers, went right up the food chain and wrote to the CEO. (It's a...
I think that would really make someone's day!
There are three SBAs--I'll check for this. thanks. Reminds me of early large copper cents and different positions of dates on these early coins.
Am from NW side of Chicago. Moved away. Was in town when the Cubs won the pennant in 2016--wow how that brought the city together. Miss riding my...
There used to be a columnist--Sydney Harris--who wrote "What I learned about when going to other things." He meant that (when reading or...
Yesterday I was able to get ten rolls of quarters at our small-town bank. They even gave me one of those heavy blue cloth bank zipper bags--which,...
Nice vintage coins. Have never found any like this in circulation, but my change tends to come from the grocery store and gas stations. It must be...
To further our discussion: Here are some of the top scholarly articles on Bronze Disease, as noted by scholar.google. com. (This source is for...
Gosh, thanks for reading this thread and for the beautiful coins. I wouldn't consider any of these coins as being in the realm of "bottom...
Ambr0zie and Alegandrom, Alegandron, The two coins with red and green that are NOT active give me a good idea of what a coin with stable green...
Thanks guys for the responses. I know my bank will let me buy 100. in pennies, but I'm always careful to return these to a different bank. It...
Thanks everyone for all these good thoughts.
Thanks for the quick response. I'm just asking a general question here that would apply to these issues in general. With very old coins there...
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