Thanks for the information Noah. I am looking at an initial budget of $300 but don't know yet what is realistic.
Yes I would be looking at coins pre roman fall. Since I don't want to spend a great deal of money I would have to do some more research on how...
I have spent the last night and morning looking at ancient coins. I am considering doing a 6 coin starter set. I have never done a poll so don't...
Nero. That is quite the primer you created. You put my Roman civ. prof. from college to shame. Really connects faces with places in history....
yeah desert I quit looking medical stuff up on the internet 20 years ago. ignorance is bliss. lol James
I donated my old indians and wheats to a local boy scout troop so they could earn badges. james
thanks for the info lists. just killed an hour learning how to make a fritata (weirdest eggs ever). I look forward to goinging through sites...
Yeah i was asking the taboo part. Excellent information. just in case you haven't been keeping score at home i am the dude who had an MRI and...
Nero. Are there any rules for cleaning ancient coins? I have zero experience.
Oh and didn't mean to restart anything. 39 below here today. not much to do.
Rather bizarre thread. Only advice I can give is don't clean copper coins with baking soda. When I was a new collector (7 years old), my...
My brother dusty was a ranger who did two and a half tours in Vietnam. couldn't quote him about anything involving Vietnam that would make it...
sounds cool. something to look forward to. James at inspector 43.
thanks for the information. I had not heard of this. my mother worked at an aircraft plant during the war and my father served in the Pacific and...
When I was seven in 1967 I got a Christmas gift. The J.C. Penny Let's Collect Coins kit. A fellow named Kenneth Bressett wrote the intro and...
I had a friend who was nuts about cleaning coins with baking soda. the stuff would get wedged in various spots and then turn into concrete that...
As you will find in this thread Great collections and Heritage are the two largest. I have done more than a dozen auctions with Great Collections...
What you are describing sounds an awful lot like baking soda remains.
I don't know how large your access to actual coins is. I will say, though, it is totally free to go to sites like Heritage Auctions or Great...
The CAC sticker was of little importance to me. Although, I will be very interested to SEE what a CAC coin is suppose to look like. I have...
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