[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Silver Baggie picture - Computers are strange; when I upload a pdf, it only uploads the file. But when I do a jpeg, it uploads...
Here's my silver baggie. I got it at the SF mint; can't remember the year, probably 1966 or 1967. It was "change" for all the silver certs we [my...
Does anyone know if the Mexico 50 peso pieces of 1921-1931 actually circulated? They were over 20% heavier than a 100 Kroner.
I doubt if there were any US made contemporary counterfeits, but per Wikipedia the Emperor of Chine issued an edict in 1873 forbidding the...
I can remember seeing coins with multiple chop marks 60 years ago [yes, I've been collecting that long], so I din't think that's a problem on any...
The scratch seems to be only in the field. Is it possible that the die was scratched before the hub impression was made?
The seller isn't claiming that the coin has an 82-84 CC obverse; he is claiming it is an 1889 CC obverse, when it seems the experts here think...
Penna_Boy - eBay fooled you. Not so long ago they started directing you to a current auction of a similar coin, not the coin that the link...
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Back when the Hunt brothers ran the silver and gold prices up to new highs, I was selling off my $20 gold pieces to a local dealer. One day he...
A bit of trivia: The 20c uses the Seated Liberty obverse, and a modified trade dollar reverse. Because the motto was on the reverse of the seated...
A good example of this are the slabbed cut down BEP currency reprint souvenir cards. Most are graded 67PPQ or 68PPQ [I can't figure out why they...
I once got a package three months after mailing. No postal marking at all, but stamped "Sent to Taiwan in error". It was mailed in an adjoining...
Checking in with the local coin club can be a good idea, especially if you know someone there. A friend of mine had some coins to sell - a couple...
Back when they first announced the end of redemption in silver was coming up, my brother and I bought all the silver certs we could at $1.05 per...
It seems that now "proof" can mean either a test strike [what I would call a "real proof"], or a specimen strike from polished dies. Is there any...
Another great Hunt brothers story: [I am not 100% sure I believe it, but if IIRC, it was in Barron's.] Just as Bishop Ussher calculated that the...
Thanks for the correction on the fine. It was a long time ago; can't remember everything.
Thanks for the sympathy. But because the Hunt's fiasco ran up the price of gold too, I came out way ahead in the end. And filling out all the...
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