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Re: Post the coin(s) that "hooked" you
On 13th of August in 2006 I went to my first coin show. It was a rather small local venue inside a rec center in Paris, Ontario. While there, I met a great dealer from Niagara Falls, ON. John and I talked quite a bit about world coins and I ended-up buying a dark crusty 8 Reales from him. I was attracted by the crudeness… -
Re: Sh!t hits the fan, economy crashed, the dollar isn't worth what it is printed on...
<< <i>Gold ...enough to start a life somewhere else. >> calleocho nails it in the first reply, and many others agree, you buy your way to safety and a chance at prosperity. Standing your ground and trying to barter PMs for necessities in a TRUE SHTF scenario is a good way to get robbed and/or murdered. We assume by your… -
Re: Anyone looking for a 51 Bowman Mantle PSA 8?
wow the sky is falling 8/21/10 this mantle brings 21,000 including the juice and now a little over 2 months later it sells for just 6700 a 68% drop in value in less than 90 days, but now that I won the card for 6700, I guess i'll do a BIN on ebay for 11,000. I just need to think up a real good sob story and if anybody… -
Re: is there a market for tokens??
Most of these tokens were ordered from the manufacturer in lots of 1000. Very few businesses would order more than this and would actually circulate only a small percentage of their order. If they had need of a reorder the dies would have to be recut since all the manufacturers destroyed dies after use. This recutting… -
Re: Harold's Estate, New Wrinkle?
<< <i>I'm glad to hear she described that the coins were tooled and artificially toned and that they weren't part of Harold's estate. ... All she said about the coin doctoring is that "Cliff noticed that there is a criss-cross scratched on the front that somebody may have attempted to scrape off, since the area on the… -
Re: Don't look now but the Angels suck again..
I view it a little differently. I dont see that changing teams tarnishes a legacy. legacies like Jordans, Montana's, Willie May's, Wayne Gretzky's were already established. well established. all of it was already written in the record books. Jordan playing for washington, mays falling down in the outfield, Gretzky playing… -
Re: Something different - a DON’T guess the grade thread…
I can unreasonably fall in love with a coin from time to time too. EDIT: Removed reference to pricing of higher grade coin to honor OP's directive. -
Cuds
The first coin is an 1806/inv6 O.111"b" terminal die state with very rare double cuds, probably R.6 in this die state. The next coin is 1795 O.103a, the largest cud in the Flowing Hair half dollar series, an R.5 die marriage and possibly R.6 with the cud. There are 12 full rim cuds found on half dollars from 1794-1806,… -
Re: A crazy way to make a few dishonest bucks?! 1860s-style.
A long excerpt from GOLD AND SILVER COINS, COUNTERFEIT COINS, AND BULLION; WITH MINT VALUES. THIRD EDITION, REARRANGED, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS BY JACOB R. ECKFELDT And WILLIAM E. DUBOIS, ASSAYERS OF THE MINT OF THE UNITED STATES. Available via Google books (Thanks to the Krajelblog for leading me to this book) A much more…
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