As many people know, Gallery Mint Museum in Eureka Springs Arkansas was the creation of Joe Rust and Ron Landis. Following Joes's recent passing,...
Interesting thread! I'm always amazed at the numerous auctions on eBay for coins with die-cracks. I am plagued by die-cracks! They occur late in...
Yocum Dollar to Satootoko: Actually not far off! the "Dogpatch" theme park (now closed) was near Jasper Arkansas, just about fifty miles down...
Well... okay... that's from my webpage on the subject... but I was wondering if there are other opinions, or perhaps people who've actually seen...
I'm just wondering what people think about the tales of the Yocum Dollar. (and the other legendary silver coins, such as the Sprinkle Dollar and...
I have to agree with Just Carl I'm afraid. Let's face it... a coin is just a piece of metal impressed with an image! There's no technological...
cheap ancients when I mentioned the ancients being "cheap" I am speaking as a casual and not a serious collector. What I've noticed is a massive...
Cheap ancients.... I wonder why... I just posted a variant of this post over in a thread under US COINS about slabs. The gist of the story is...
Slabbed... why? I will never own a slabbed coin. If I can't touch a coin, then it's not worth having. I want to hold it in my hand, flip it in...
Die doubling and machine doubling As a coiner I have made my share of doubled-images on coins. The true doubled-die is an artifact of the...
Waiting for $9 silver again I make coins, so I use a lot of silver, both in the form of sheet for punching blanks and as coin and scrap for...
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