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Advice from these boards from experienced collectors is quite valuable. Ignore it at your peril. That said, I sometimes take the counterpoint and live with the consequences. When you run into a truly… (View Post)

The majority of my childhood collection was inherited from my mother and grandmother. The first coin I remember buying was an 1803 large cent at Macy's department store in Herald Square, NY, I was ab… (View Post)

My sad Henry IV is a groat, worn and clipped, but unmistakeably Henry IV (as opposed to some coins which are categorized as Henry IV or V) (View Post)

There is also the chance that there may not have been an underbidder. The one bid may have been it. Since it was a guaranteed bid, the auctioneer bid it up to give the facade of action. But I think t… (View Post)

The kingdom of Northumbria, one of the petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, issued coins popularly known as sceats and stycas during the 8th and 9th century. These coins are simplistic in design, e… (View Post)