These are among some of my favorite types ever produced anywhere - I also have a counterstamped example, but I don't appear to have a photo of it...
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What if someone tries to use a $2 bill AND a Kennedy Half to buy a taco or a burger... will the police get a call for attempted use of counterfeit...
This will likely become more of a trend. A few years ago my bank removed all coin counters and started taking a more defensive attitude towards...
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I no longer buy items that have manufactured scarcity. So few, if any, of them ever become true desired rarities. The Canadian mint provides a...
I have seen other things like it, namely, official medals of World's fairs. I've seen certified examples of that particular one selling for around...
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A YouTube channel on collectibles (not exclusively about coins) that I watch periodically emphatically recommends the Scott Travers book "The Coin...
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Wow! That's a completely different world from when I was growing up in an only somewhat larger city. "Wheat pennies," as everyone called them,...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius. AR Denarius. Struck 161/2 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG, bare head right / CONCORD AVG TR P XVII, COS III in exergue,...
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Bubbles also occur when someone, or some group, thinks that they can beat the market by some "innovation" of leveraging debt far beyond the value...
Like many definitions, it depends on who you ask, but I think decent boundaries can exist even here. I wouldn't consider someone who collects...
I don't think it would that simple with the cent, because it requires price changes from .01 to .05 as the base unit of coinage. Eliminating...
My understanding is that it takes an act of Congress to change coinage and any proposed legislation typically falls into the "lower priority"...
BRING BACK THE HALF CENT!!!!
Sadly, adding to the challenge for collectors over investors, is that most modern coinage has become monetarily uninteresting and nearly...
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