The Papal States have have been minting coins since around the seventh century; in 1929, when Vatican City became is own territory, the coins...
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My coins range all the way up from "off the scale" (badly damaged with almost no identifying features--but still, they are part of history) to...
I have two boxes of Lincoln pennies. I have usually gone through these for wheat cents and Canadian cents but the yield keeps getting lower and...
Had never done this before...usually it's jeans and a beat-up shirt.. Wow! The incredible politeness and respect I received. I asked, please, may...
There used to be a columnist--Sydney Harris--who wrote "What I learned about when going to other things." He meant that (when reading or...
Yesterday I was able to get ten rolls of quarters at our small-town bank. They even gave me one of those heavy blue cloth bank zipper bags--which,...
There is a Roman Emperor coin from the first century I'm looking at. I've been searching awhile for this and they are a bit hard to find, I think....
Oh how I have loved the roll...to rephrase that great song by the great Willie Nelson. Basically have searched pennies (for wheats and Canadians)...
1. R.A.G. Carson, Coins of the World, 1962. Beautifully bound book that still can be found on different websites. Almost 700 pages, gives precise...
I've been slowing going through this course. I find it very difficult, as was my experience with the ANA course. But I'm glad it's challenging,...
I apologize if this has been asked before. When is a coin considered a copper coin, and when is it considered bronze? Okay, Early American...
[ATTACH] And do you have a story about the coin, the memories recalled, thoughts from the depths off the soul?[ATTACH] I remember one night in...
When my father died, my mother said to go through his things and take anything I wanted. I discovered the metal box where, in the 1960s, he'd...
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