Littleton's ingenious marketing pulled me in at least once back in my more impulsive days. I forget what the impulse offer was, perhaps an entire...
Shop around and see what lures you in. I bought my first ancient at a local coin shop - it had a wonderful portrait of Probus on it and I thought...
I see some other sites selling these for between $247 - $260. Ebay had one for $264. I think I bought mine a whole ago when gold was much lower,...
Wow! The first pure energy proof coin! What will those Canadians think of next?!
The heft definitely makes an impression. I always think "wow, these used to actually buy things! Had I lived back then, would I have really traded...
I use Libre Office, a free spreadsheet program that pretty much does what Excel does but for $0.
My parents bought my first coins when I still had only a single digit age, so I don't exactly remember the first one. A sewing machine shop in a...
Wow! I went to Aladdin's Castle when I was a mere tyke. I had forgotten about it and arcades in general. I used to have a few of those tokens, but...
I have never heard of them. Do they have a website? "Fleur de coin grading" in Google search doesn't seem to return an obvious site. Or even any...
I love and hate both slabs and raws. Slabs at least give some measure of assurance that you're buying the real thing, but, as already said, fake...
Germs are everywhere. As said above, you're more likely to get contaminated from the cell phone you put in your face multiple times a day than the...
Ummm... mine is... ummm... a happy splashing fish wearing tightie whities. It comes from one of the drawings on the site that I'm either on break...
One can only fathom the situation under which someone carved that coin. Yikes.
Yes, that's true, but the losses from the cent and the nickel are more than made up for by the profits from the dime, quarter and other releases....
Maybe, no one really knows, but I think such a situation would instead drive a move to electronic means of money rather than more coins.
Oh my, I would miss the lovely beaver nickel - one of my favorite modern circulating coins. But apparently some think it will happen: Canada will...
If anything ever happens with US money (apart from going electronic), I see Congress moving to polymer notes before switching to minting more...
Wow... I feel overwhelmed just looking at those pictures. Wow. The advice given so far is good, so I'll try not to repeat it. To speed up your...
They're not extremely expensive in AU grades. You can typically find decent Meiji 1 Yen dragons in the most common years somewhere between $100 -...
Sleazy dealers definitely exist. I've had run-ins with more than a few. Some have tried to pass off things to me as something else more valuable,...
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