Coins have made the headlines!!! Frontpage on Yahoo! - "How Much Does it Cost to Make a Penny"...
I have an "old" set of SLR Olympus equpment - OM-2, OM-1N. I know the SLR bodies are worthless as far as coins are concerned. But my question...
Recently, I've started looking at slabbed proof coins. For various reasons, I'll almost never have the opportunity to see the coin "in hand"...
The coin everyone loves to hate. Found a cool link to the coin. Love it, hate it, you owe the 20 minutes to read up on it, Mr/Mrs. Numismatist...
This is a question I've wondered about. Often, we'll say that 90% junk silver coins are being bought at 12x face or whatever. However, the...
I've always had it in the back of my head (lots of free space!) that SEGS was kind of THE grading company for Jefferson nickels. I've seen a...
I've seen a some recent threads about cleaning coins. I thought I would add a twist to the subject. Obviously cleaning is very serious for...
Just saw this on e-bay. Interesting. The seller says a genuine 1916-D mercury that has 2 holes in it and some collateral damage. But the date...
Wow! On the "main" front page of Yahoo! "How to Spot Counterfeit Money" http://www.divinecaroline.com/22287/73997-spot-counterfeit-money...
Ok. Maybe a stupid question - but that has NEVER stopped me. It is well known that RD lincolns can or will eventually become RB or even BN...
This thread is related to Hobo's excellent thread on the Counterfeit coin experiment with FUN dealers. My question. Let's assume a dealer...
Ha! I couldn't resist posting this. An old lady stuffs $10,000 in a box of crackers, accidentally returns the box of crackers to the store,...
Another "guy trying to pay with pennies". This is a bit different - only $52 worth and they issued a warrant for his arrest because he tried to...
Accidentally ran accross this as I was looking for Ag/G Walkers for my shiny collection. There was a thread about the pro's and con's of the...
Back when Saturday Night Live started in the '70s, they had a recurring skit called something like: "Terribly Bad Literature". It was a spoof on...
Where do these come from? I'm not talking about Isabella or the Columbian halves. For example, I've seen VG examples of the Monroe Commem....
Everyone on the forum says: "Well, as long as you like the coin, that's all that is important" or "I can't really tell from the obverse,...
I thought this was a nice, upbeat article about coin collecting. Nice powerful images and really shows how coin collecting can be special. Put...
I don't know if this product is brand new, but I had never seen it before, so thought I would post. Ziplock has both quart (a little more than...
Ha! - No more checks or Money Orders! - Maximum shipping charges - Minimum of 4.3 on DSR's - No more E-Bay Express I usually ignore e-bay...
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