This is an interesting dicsussion. I agreem mostly with what has been said but if it comes down to hunting, that will only be an option for a...
I've been trying to figure out how to answer this question. I love to collect coins, I don't know why exactly but I haven't determined a...
There are different wayts to tell. The most scientific way is to weigh them but the less scientific way is to drop them on a table and listen to...
Maybe so but it is also easier to get caught due to logs and tracing capabilities. There will always be somebody who thinks it is easier to get...
The day could come when counterfeiting will destroy the value of coinage. The reason the US government has changed the design of the paper bills...
LOL! Native language is English and was once fluent in German. I can still get by. But in the same vein as Bacchus post I am or have also...
When does the contest end?
I have to wonder if the Kansas quarter will get hoarded like the 2005 Buffalo nickel is. I have yet to see a single 2005 Buffalo nickel in...
Arrgh! My digital camera just died - and it isn't just a dead battery. :( Oh well, the scanner will have to do. Here is a buffalo nickel I...
That's what I was afraid of. It creates a kind of dilemma. It would seem that even the "reprocessed" ones would also start to show a patina...
They can have some value depending on condition and dates, mint marks, uncommon types of mint errors, etc. A lot of people like the wheat cents....
I did what I should have done first, I searched the internet. "At the same time many more thousands of 1943 steel cents were stripped of their...
The really pretty steel penny that Davada showed us in the "What's it worth" forum got me to looking at eBay (am I the only one that did that?)...
Wow! Speedy's an old guy now? A hearty welcome to Speedy in joining the "old geezer" club. :p
Right ... but viewed by those who are interested. Why would you care about other views?
While I fully agree with Lawdogct, maybe if you posted them in the Error Coins forum you might get less flak. Just a suggestion.
Onkel Ingo
I'll be DIX is the Roman numeral for 509. D=500 IX = 9. But what would the significance of 509 be to the Civil War? Or maybe it is a name. I...
Are you saying we've been bufalloed too many times and it's time to be goosed? ;) I prefer being buffaloed over being goosed so that is how I...
Pinchas Bar-Zeev, He posts here occasionally, I believe.
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