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Re: The Collaborative "Virtual 7070" Type Set Project
I hope y'all will find this post interesting, and not a digression from the main theme. Back around 2008, I avidly collected love tokens done on dimes. These are just some of the ones on post-1860 Legend Obverse Seated dimes. By no means all of the ones I had. This was back in my flatbed scanner imaging era, so the pics… -
Great catalog writeup on 1870-S dollar!
Kudos to B&M - this is one of the best writeups I've ever seen for this rare date [my corrections in bold]: Discounting the unknown 1873-S, the 1870-S is the rarest issue in the Seated Dollar series of 1840-1873 and, indeed the rarest regular-issue Silver Dollar of any type. With only nine examples positively confirmed,… -
Charmy's October 2012 DALLAS ANA SHOW REPORT w/Tons of Pics!!!
Let me first say that Dallas is a beautiful city! And the weather this past week was absolutely perfect!! I really enjoyed my time in Dallas. And even though the show started out rather slowly, overall I had a successful show. FYI, this report will be more picture-intensive than usual because there were just so many… -
Chris Kraft, Flight Director, 1924 - 2019; Post a coin from 1924
RIP Chris Kraft. Without him it would have been a far different looking program. Post a coin from 1924. (As per collectSPACE)... Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., NASA's original flight director who invented the concept of Mission Control, has died. He was 95. The following biography was prepared by NASA prior to his death:… -
Great article about the state of the hobby
It ran during the National and I'm sure some read it, but for those that didn't: By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports July 28, 2006 Link to article Jeff Passan Yahoo! Sports ANAHEIM, Calif. – I went to a baseball card show and a bling contest broke out. In the right light, a refractor card may very well blind someone. There is… -
History says we have another silver bubble in the making?
Every few years we seem to be "running out" of something. These days it's oil and metals. We've seen this before with oil, silver and a few years ago after the northeastern US blackout [due to human error] people said electricity was in short supply. When will we learn? Below is a sampling [not my work] of Wall St. Journal… -
Re: 1794 Dollar Question
A BIOGRAPHY OF W. ELLIOT WOODWARD On April 30, 1825, Captain Caleb Woodward, age 35, tanner, shoemaker, and veteran of the War of 1812, married his second wife, Hannah Cary, age 29. Six months later, on Oct. 29, she bore him a son, William Elliot Woodward. The family lived in Oxford, a town in Oxford County, Maine, on the… -
How About This Franklin?
Just wanted to throw this "Change Up" on you guy's!! Ole Ben's been around for a long time throughout American History. Not just in coins, but Medals also. I thought it was so I'm sharing some history here. Lee 34.0 mm and struck at the US Mint. Awarded to George Parker in 1865 and engraved with his name and date on the… -
Re: Dan Carrs latest
Has been a decade since I ordered something from US Mint. Been adding various Carr issued PEACE in mean time. Seeing this offer I thought these Reverse Proofs would complement my odd & curious coinage archive: https://catalog.usmint.gov/morgan-peace-dollar-2023-two-coin-reverse-proof-set-23XS.html Knowing how the Mint QC… -
Re: CONTURSI SELLS THE 1794 $1 FOR ALMOST $8 MILLION!
<< <i>Nah, my premise was not false. I know exactly what the coin was figured at. If you believe that simply recertifying the coin added $3M to the value at the time, then I find that very interesting. It's a great coin and I've often said I'd love to own it. But not at ANY price. >> I'm not saying that recertifying added…
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