Recent story about in the NY Times. I agree ANS needed to move from Manhattan. They are paying almost $2 million per year in rent, and visits...
Just got an email about it. Next show is Feb 18-20. Glad it’s back. Have usually attended one show a year there. Cheap trip from NorCal. A...
Visited the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England. Jorvik is the old Viking name of the city. In Norse languages, the “J” in Jorvik is pronounce...
I don’t collect slabs and never have. But for those who do, there is a batch of Morgans up for auction that are in slabs by uncommon TPGs like...
I checked on recent auction prices for a reasonably popular high-end coin. The coin is 1880-CC Morgan graded MS-66+ by PCGS (and no, I’ve never...
Interesting article in Coin Week (see link below) about silver refiners being at capacity, which ripples back to dealers not wanting to buy or...
Although my wife and I have visited a lot of British museums, below are pics from a few. The coins and apparatuses are some of the more...
The museum is in the Tower of London and is dedicated to the history of the Royal Fusiliers Regiment. The regiment was begun in 1685 by James II...
Visited the museum and couldn’t resist the penny press machine … especially, we were with friends who had their 4 year old boy along. Did one for...
Yesterday and today, we visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It’s a huge museum devoted mostly to art and history. Among other items, it has a...
Visited the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales today. What a great experience it was! Started with Google leading my wife and me to the security...
Was in the museum a few days ago. Spotted some Celtic gold coins. Can read the description in the picture. There were also some Roman silver...
Visited the Salisbury Cathedral yesterday in England. It’s the most impressive cathedral I’ve seen, and I’ve seen many in the British Isles and...
Got a strange notice that PCGS is retiring my old customer number at the end of the year and have stated what the new one will be. Old one was 6...
PCGS: Suppose the cert. no. is xxxxxxxx. One way to do it is to type pcgs.com in the URL box of your browser and press enter, click on Verify,...
Was there only Wed and Thu. Didn’t buy any coins. I rarely buy at shows these days but look at auction lots and sometimes contact a dealer after...
Several members have already said they’ll be there. Anyone else? I’d like to meet some members in the flesh for a chat or coffee or maybe lunch....
There’s a 1891-CC Morgan up for auction on Great Collections in a PCGS Bee Frame holder. The link is below. I have no interest in this coin as...
Longtime subscriber. First to paper edition; now to digital. Tried to logon yesterday. Get message website is down for work. Tried today....
There is an interesting article in the 23 June issue of Coin World about the RMS Republic salvage efforts. The ship sank in January 1909 off...
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