I like your bill, but it's not too unusual for the black ink from the front to bleed a little onto the sheet above it, or for the embossing to...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] This one is harder to see. The ship is tiny, on the horizon near Brittania's feet. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Not in as good condition as some of yours, and I see no clash marks. This is aluminum from 1937-1938. I have some others somewhere, but no...
That is so cool! Thanks for posting!
I doubt down. More likely rounded up, like the gas price. I've had fast food drive throughs already do that to me. Since most transactions...
$40 in double eagles and $10 in eagles should do it. I remember paying $60 for a Saint $20 about that time.
I got a catalogue from Ben's Stamp and Coin Co., in Chicago, when I was 12. I ordered quite a few coins from it, a few of which I still have,...
This would have been relatively trivial when made: Caria Halicarnasus Tetartemorion, 6mm, .2 g. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This qualifies as trivial...
From the loser: [ATTACH]
The Latin motto around the pig being shot means, "Either death or life is beautiful": [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I bought this in 1961 from a dealer who took it from an unused pack of 100. The foxing is actually from the ink of the bill...
Better than the fake given to me (we both knew it was fake): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The engraving is better than most of the regular issues.
I'll believe it when I see it. Cents have cost more to produce than they are worth since the 1970s. Although not worth much, they are backed by...
I've always thought that the idea that there are eight bits in a byte in computers comes, at least subconsciously, from the eight bits in a...
Have you compared weight to a known brass one of the same size?
H, Heaton Mint (a bit damaged, found it in a dealers "12-for-a-dollar" junk box)[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
London Mint: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This was given to me a couple of years ago by a friend. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] If only it were not counterfeit! Oh, well... This was given to me...
I remember the term being used when I was a child, as in when hopping off the barber's chair he would say, "That'll be six bits!" After almost a...
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