May God grant comfort and restored health to you and your family!
Cause I am more or less an idiot and forgot what started the tread. However, it made as much sense as the sale of the SBA for the stated amount.
Very good! I used to use this as a bonus question back when I taught history, especially in the years when there was such publicity trying to get...
Fascinated with the Gallic Empire, and especially Tetricus, who was clever enough to survive the end of his empire. Not many could claim that in...
Trivia quiz. Most people know the woman is a model representing Sacajawea. (There are no contemporary pictures, so we don't know exactly what...
Very true. Only relatively rich people could afford to collect coins. Most people were happy just to have a few to spend. I, too, find a little...
Welcome to CT. The comments above are accurate, in my non-expert opinion. It is most likely something on the coin. If not, it is a common...
It is, indeed, a cool coin. But in the 1800s, and even early 1900s, there were relatively few collectors to pull it out of circulation. And I...
They came! They came! My prize from the second day finally arrived this afternoon! Thank you again for the generous contest! (Love the...
I'm not being slow to report the receipt of prize 2. The USPS tracking history says my package left the St. Louis MO Network Distribution Center...
Then, as now, the best way was for somebody to turn them in for the reward. The writing on the lower right side of the Assignat promises to...
This Assignat threatens the counterfeiter with death (bottom left corner) during a time in the French Revolution (issued after 10/31/1793) when...
I could not believe this. https://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/item/1964-50c/6706/-1985117323252712602
Definitely rare. Check out the population figures at any of the TPGs.
I love junk boxes. A large percent of my coin purchases (by number, not value) have been 5 cents to $1.00 from junk boxes. Sometimes it is just...
Thank you so much for the prize and the contest! As for the raccoons, my friend feeds them. I watch them from the window, and occasionally...
I might have to fight my friend across the stream (and down a bit) on the other side of the woods if I claimed it as my pet. She leaves dog-food...
I want those! He is not exactly a pet, but he thinks he lives here. Frequently helps himself to the persimmons in my trees and (as here) the...
Thanks. The clash appears to be common. I have since found another (without strike-through) just in change, and figured out it is from the neck...
I want that! Thanks for the generosity! I have long found fractionals fascinating. This is one of my first ever. I picked it up for $5 back...
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