When I joined CT my interests were silver gold bullion and French art medals. After reading your posts and viewing some of your collections on...
Another thread on getting old: http://www.cointalk.com/t31969/
This is an complicated old story that, I thought, was resolved. some sort of settlement. I guess not.
Very nice Coppermania. Most of my favorite medals are of art nouveau or art deco women then just unusual medals such as the Swiss flying saucer...
>They asked the owner what kind of mileage he got and he said 20 mpg. 60 years or engineering later and Detroit is proud of getting 23 mpg.<...
Air conditioning - I don't remember when we got our first AC. I do remember going with my family to the local park to sleep on the grass because...
Thanks for the information on the GSA sales. I didn't buy any but I was interested and followed the sales. I do remember at first the sales were...
This is getting sketchy for me now. At some point during the sales they offered different sales tiers - coins starting at $3xxx, coins starting...
Wow, those are some amazing numbers, if I figured correctly. According to Inflation Calculator that $4,900.00 is worth $34,756.54 today. Pretty...
I agree with you on both counts. What ticked me off at the time was I wanted to buy some coins but didn't have the money and thought the $7.50...
>I would find that hard to believe. For one thing the GSA and the Mint cashed the checks long before they shipped out the coins.< Good point. I...
Congratulations! That's a very cool looking safe.
"Boy, some of you guys are old! I'm surprised you've got the strength to type! :D As for me, I'll let y'all in on a little secret, I color my...
Our mother was the consistent long term coin collector in the family. She started us coin collecting at a very early age. We managed to fill...
Thanks hiho, I'm not so much a fan of Swiss shooting medals but yours is spectacular. I didn't notice the flying saucer hat until you pointed it out.
Thanks. I think it was the second medal i bought from the mint. This one is Orpheus a Greek mythological figure known for his ability to charm...
Congratulations! Fascinating story and a very cool medal. If the second place medal is bronze I would bet the farm on the first place medal being...
Thanks. it measures about 3" in diameter.
This is one of my favorite French mint medals. The original picture was taken a couple of years ago then edited in PhotoScape today. Those...
good luck with those 700 medal photos. After learning of you lost your images I'm going to burn my coin images to CDs this afternoon.
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