I think the only shotgun here is the one that killed the dead horse.
It's a coin that has been struck through grease. It is an error but it is common. Not to say that it is not very cool. I have found about 8 of...
Kangayou, I just bought an example of an Austrian 10 heller earlier this week, although I bought an 1895 example. I hadn't remembered until I got...
Cool coins! I don't have any from either of those two places, and I don't think I've even seen any in person. Really like the Battle of Hastings...
It's not a DVD, it's a CD-ROM or whatever the current equivalent is. (I still prefer floppy disks!). Pretty sure they ALL come with them. I got...
Very nice. Marcus Aurelius is in my opinion one of the most interesting people in history. I think when I filled out my never used Myspace account...
Excellent advice all around. I have been to exactly one coin show, a large regional show (CoinFest last October...I wrote a fairly large,...
One thing I notice is that there seem to be more abused V nickels than any other kind of coin! I don't know why that is, but they are so common in...
I (Well, my brother) got one 2010 dime at the local McDonald's last month, a total shock to me as I didn't see a 2009 dime until April of this...
I love the Mercury dime. As I go along I find that the dime is becoming my favorite denomination to collect, and the Mercury dimes sure do look...
Have not seen one in circulation but a freind of mine gave me a handfull of them, all Philadelphia minted. Seeing 2009s regularly now, I did 4...
Randy, a true tour de force on your part. Most excellent. I hope you will do a little more into the empire past Emporer #15!
Back in the mid 1990s, around 1995 or 1996, I would have been 11 or 12 years old at the max. I had built up a collection of $1 bills and I was...
I have never heard of the variety before but tomorrow I will check the few I've got to see what I can come up with. I would say that for the...
Very cool...I have an example of the British Armed Forces 5 new pence (6th Series) myself. Surprisingly to me it's my only British paper money,...
I have not had much luck on Ebay. Not that I have gotten junk, I just keep getting outbid! I try to stay off ebay though because I don't have...
In 1989, I would have turned 5 years old in October. The only things I were collecting then were 1/64 scale cars (which I still collect) and...
You know, I've been posting on message boards since the year 2000, and I never knew what the term "blog" meant?
Excellent thread, About Good! Each and every collection is inherently different. Every coin, is truly unique. Sure they may be the exact same...
Frank, I did not know that. Why was that bit of info dropped? Did it turn out to not be a differing variety after all?
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