Ikaros and I fell into this about a decade ago. I forgot all about it, living in this town or that, but here in Austin, I saw the Sovereign Bank....
Really clever! Nice catch. In the past, I have defended FRNs against the charge of "monopoly money" on the basis of their complex security...
Unless it is certified otherwise, I assume that every circulated coin has been cleaned. That is what circulation is. What you mean is, did someone...
I agree with jaxcollector, every day is a good day. We have had this discussion here before and on every other coin board I know of. Some will...
Us, too! Care to show them paired?
2500 years ago, it would have been easy to say that you cannot eat gold or silver. They do not hold an edge, so they cannot be used to make manual...
Nice coin! I just read about Angiulfus in Peter Spufford's Money and its Use in Medieval Europe. Have you tried viewing the coin obliquely?...
Numismatist. The dictionary is a help, that is all. They do not create definitions; they only report what "everyone" seems to mean by what they...
Nice write-up. I archived the PDF and printed off your article put it inside Mattingly's Roman Coins before the back cover. Your three points for...
Thanks for the great write-up and informative snapshots! You created a nice narrative for the event.
"Genuine Cleaning" hahaha like the Byron Reed 1804 Dollar. Cleaned by a museum curator every few years to remove the tarmish; and after being...
"... other collections..."? What about the piggy bank? My wife falls for Depression Glass. Clifford Mishler - former editor and publisher at...
"Faber-Castell, established in 1761 by the cabinet maker Kaspar Faber (1730-1784), is one of the oldest industrial companies in the world. The...
[IMG] J & L Steel. 35 mm non-magnetic plain edge. Spinner. Obverse: “YOU [up arrow]↑WIN WITH J & L STEEL STOCKS” horseshoe and shamrock....
The plethora of adverting exonumia has no easy taxonomy.The KrauseStandard Catalog of United States Tokens 1790-1900 by Russell Rulau assigns them...
Treas, Chris and I mended our fences. His reply to me was the correct one and we built on that. My concern for the find site was not an...
After all these years... I just assumed... (ahem). You have always spoken from experience; and I don't remember ever catching you is a...
Yes. Counter-stamped coins are quite an interesting phenomenon, especially from 19th century merchants. Q. David Bowers - nominally "the dean of...
3. Goto StacksBowers.com and search for "error" and I expect that you will be somewhat disappointed. That market is not yet mature. And I had...
First, Greg Reynolds has to validate himself to the reader who does not know who he is. I do the same thing. For a dealer like GDJMSP that comes...
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