[ATTACH] [ATTACH] See my review of Colin Gullberg's book on chopmarked coins....
Like just about everyone else, I have a lot of pictures of my coins from over the years. Some I re-shoot with a new tool. So, there's that......
Thanks for the review. I have been to several CSNS conventions. You write as if you have been in the business for a long time. With phrases such...
Ferguson earned his master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Since then, he was...
Confiscation: Gold as Contraband 1933-1974 by Kenneth R. Ferguson was a pleasure to read. Ferguson writes well. I met Ken Ferguson in person at a...
Nice little coin. The colony was sold to the USA in 1917 for several reasons. With the abolition of slavery in 1848, DWI stopped being...
Hamburg 1904 5 Mark 326,000 struck 27.7770 grams 0.900 fine 0.8038 oz I like the Free City and Hanseatic League concepts. I am not much for the...
"Noops" (new purchases) yesterday at a local coin store. I was happy to find these early issues. My intention in collecting MPCs is to have...
I get the point. My attraction for numismatics began with Ayn Rand. It took me a long time to get past "I just want bullion" to understanding the...
[ATTACH] My article about Bay Bucks of Traverse City is now archived here: http://www.michigancoinclub.org/Articles04.html The Bristol (UK) pound...
You did not know that because it was repealed in 1974, over 40 years ago. It was in place for only 30 years. So, we have been longer without it...
No, you got silver certificates, not Federal Reserve Notes. And you can print your own money today....
Not entirely true. It is easy enough to find the original order. One archive is the American Presidency Project of the University of California at...
That touches on the very definition of "coin." In "Numismatic News" for July 5, 1994, Alan Herbert claimed that the US Mint holds legal title to...
Very nice coin, of course! Based on the detail missing from the hair of Miss Liberty on the obverse, I judged it VF right away. But looking more...
Errors are interesting, but not consuming. I mean, I appreciate your passion for collecting. It is one of the rewards to the true collector, that...
I appreciate your passion for collecting, but I do not share all of the same aspects. There is truly nothing wrong with a 67 PPQ. They are rare,...
Roger Boskovic was an 18th century mathematician and philosopher. (See Wikipedia here.) Standing on Newton's shoulders, he developed a geometric...
2017 UK commemorative 50 pence reverse. According to en.numista.com: "Design based upon elements of Proposition 11 in Book One of Newton's...
Very nice. It looks like original surfaces with a lot of detail, easily an AU, but maybe a true Uncirculated. Also, the year 1892 was lower...
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