Can people here help me fix the deplorable Wikipedia article on non-circulating legal tender? I can guess at the reasons for putting a nominal...
Things that require study are fine, in fact that adds to the fun, at least for me. I get scared, though, when I read about professional dealers...
The 2009 Ultra High Relief double Eagle shipped with a book that goes into fascinating detail about how the dies were prepared, and has a web site...
There have been previous threads about coins and rounds made from niobium, tantalum, titanium and so on: http://www.cointalk.com/t20534/...
Every now and then you hear about somebody's kid stealing their collectible US coins and spending them at the corner store. How bad could that...
The overwhelming consensus is that new collectors should study diligently and establish a relationship with a good dealer. How do people go about...
I'll never get around to it, but it would be kinda cool to collect some of the bullion coins that Kahre and company paid their workers as a tax...
The book that comes with the UHR Double Eagle emphasizes how the Mint switched from using the venerable Janvier reducing lathe to using a...
Before the Elizabethan milled coins of 1561, Cellini was using a screw press to make coins for the Pope. Does anyone know of reference works that...
For enjoyment, a set is more than the sum of its parts, at least including the fun of patiently accumulating all the pieces need to fill it out....
Performance comes and goes, but expenses are forever. So imagine someone buying physical but trying to shave every possible basis point off their...
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Google has been of limited help. How they are made is my first question. The only information in Googlespace seems to be that some have the...
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