I think there were other factors contributing to the demise of stamps and BB cards, but yes, "too much crap" from the US Mint isn't helping...
I was using "OK" in a different sense. I don't collect US series, just types, so if I'm going to have only one example of a coin, I like it to be...
Seconded. Thanks to the OP for sharing.
One of my favorites too. Here's mine (color is way off; actual color is like Corgi's). One of these days I intend to pick up a better example, but...
Agreed . . . just like US, Canada, UK and pretty much every other major coin issuer. That's why I decided to limit myself to just EU countries...
As modern coinage goes, the €2 commemoratives are a reasonably interesting series (more so, I think, than recent US circulating commems). I've...
Mardi Gras beads are kind of like the 1960s. If you can remember them, you probably weren't there.
Exactly. Certifiying coins that really don't need to be certified. But hey, hawking them keeps Mike Mezack employed, so I guess it's OK.
You're worrying needlessly, Randy. It's what happens when we get older and start having "intimations of mortality" (apologies to William...
• I use a small glass food storage container with a snap-on plastic lid to slow evaporation. • I buy acetone in a quart can sold in the painting...
What's a verietys?
I've spent my entire adult life looking at fonts, so they're always the first place I go when I check the authenticity of a slabbed coin.
Actually I probably overstated that. Not "quite different", but different enough in certain details of some of the letters and numbers to know...
The fonts are one obvious tell. Both serif fonts, but otherwise quite different.
I'm guess his lightly circulated coin was recently released from someone's collection. In my experience only the really worn ones get that dirty look.
Same here. My dad had a small plastic box on his bedroom dresser filled with coins and currency he brought back from the South Pacific in WWII,...
Wonderful coins, and terrific photos too. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe check the inventory at another Home Depot. All of the HDs and Lowe's in my area sell it in quart cans.
Perhaps what you’re not picking up on is that a lot of us are just tired of the endless stream of manufactured collectibles cranked out by the US...
Anyone who would put such a lovely coin into a melt bin should be flogged! :D
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