I have been working on an exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark commemorative gold dollars. The inspiration for the Jefferson gold...
I wish I had a good local club. I don't.
It was easier to see coins from the Smithsonian collection in the 1960s than it is now. Far more of the collection was on display then. I know...
The latest major example of a museum or other entity mishandling items is the DeWitt collection of political items, including tokens. DeWitt left...
It seems to me that NGC dropped the CAC bonus from the registry points. It seems like the few pieces I have with the sticker are no longer getting...
I have dreamed about coins but rarely. Unfortunately, I have not been able to bring any of them back with me. :happy:
I am not a big fan of museum donation. Museums can be the best and the worst. If they display their items with informative write-ups to support...
I have had mostly a bad lifetime with auctions. A week would never bother me.
When I was active in this area, collectors preferred these coins raw. Coin investors are most drawn to slabs. This is not a coin for investors.
I does not have to an 1803, which is slightly better date. 1799 is the most common year. It's also the only silver coin the mint issued that year....
For U.S. coins, I prefer PCGS. For foreign coins, NGC. Actually I prefer raw coins for my foreign purchases, but if it’s graded, I’ve found NGC...
Pass. The obverse looks like it’s been cleaned.
When you dip a coin, you expose “virgin metal” that was under the oxidized metal that the mild acid dip removed. That surface is sometimes more...
In one sense, I can agree with this. From what I have read, there was no love losts for the Flowing Hair design when it was current. Conversely,...
[ATTACH] I was reading the new book, Killing the Witches, but Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard when I ran into some interesting information about...
The criteria for good and bad Roman emperors and British kings have changed. The “good ones” are those who conquered territories and could hang on...
I would say that it was dipped and not rinsed properly. These coins are 35% silver, 56% copper and 9% manganese. It is a rather unstable alloy....
Yes my parents saved those. At least they didn’t have an expiration date, and you got them for buying worthwhile stuff, like food. They were so...
This reminds me of the coupons that Raleigh cigarettes used to include on their packs and cartons. My mother used to smoke them before her doctor...
Here is an 1862 Confederate five dollar piece. The Confederacy was on fait currency from the beginning. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The Charlotte and...
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