This is an old story of mine, which made the rounds on various blogs and newsletters when it got shared by other people. It came up in a...
CTF Giveaway #1 Contest status: CLOSED [IMG] Please take a moment to read the introduction below. There's a series of handy links at the...
2025 COINTALK FRIENDS (CTF) GIVEAWAYS (Master Thread & Summary) Please read this introduction to familiarize yourself. Don't worry- once these...
(Or, if you don’t have a specific list of ten clear-cut goals, then your general plan will do.) Since @Croatian Coin Collector recently posted...
This “coworker holiday envelope” thing has been a tradition of mine at work for the past three or four years. I’m the night auditor at an 85-room...
Without warning, I crept up on him. I reached out as @Randy Abercrombie was contentedly strolling along, collecting his US Type coins, and I...
I love the Akragas coins with their crabs and eagles. Particularly this hemidrachm type mentioned below. With the eagle snatching a hare on the...
All of the following giveaways have been recently posted on the Contests forum: Expat's Holiday & New Year Giveaway, 2024/5 (mystery prize)...
Expat's Holiday & New Year Giveaway, 2024/5 Contest status: CLOSED Drawing: 01 January 2025 Winner: @meandyou4ever0 Shipped: 7 January 2025...
LordM Giveaway #120 (pick your prize) Contest status: CLOSED Drawing: 01 January 2025 Winner: @Jersey magic man Shipped: 02 January 2025...
Seems like it would be fun. This one could be useful afterwards, all year round.
This would be just dandy. Thanks! :)
I would like to announce that @Randy Abercrombie and I have kicked off this year’s Twelve Days of COINmas series of contests. We will be doing...
I'm sure it's been done before in forum history, but why not have a key date coins thread? I suppose semi-keys are OK, as well. But just post...
Yesterday was my 48th birthday. No, not my actual birthday, but rather my numismatic birthday. My 48th anniversary as a collector. Tonight at...
Randy & Rob’s “Twelve Days of COINmas”, 2024 Brought to you by @Randy Abercrombie & @lordmarcovan. (This contest will be archived as LordM...
LordM Giveaway #118 (pick your prize) Contest status: CLOSED Drawing: @JoshuaP won Shipped: 6 December 2024 Winner's receipt...
I just purchased this Gem Type 3 gold dollar. It is pedigreed to the D.L. Hansen Collection. Given the caliber of that famous collection, which...
These coppers were originally issued for Ireland (“Hibernia” is the old Latin name for Ireland.) Like William Wood’s earlier Hibernia coins, these...
[MEDIA] Hmm. I did not realize that the Farouk specimen was the only '33 double eagle that’s legal to own. I had assumed (wrongly, it seems)...
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