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Re: Finally completed my collection of Southern Bank Note Company types
Bill, After being a fan of your posts and material on the coin side for years now, I had no idea that this was one of your diverse collecting interests. What a great little type collection this is in so many respects! The Southern Banknote Co. issues (as well as the ABN T1-T4 notes) are the most attractive Confederate… -
Re: U.S. Mint 2026 Trump Gold Coin Advances, Large Size Considered
Sorry, but I was falsely accused of saying something that I did not say. I am waiting for an apology and a retraction. -
The disappointing 2024 Red Sox and the expected fall out.
It remains an enigma to me that Breslow, etal would reup Cora for 3 more years. This afte LAST PLACE, LAST PLACE, FOURTH PLACE. It's as though they want to promote mediocrity. Of course you will find many rah, rah BS for 2025 will all the necessary platitudes. Six employees are now gone, too bad Cora didn't join the bunch.… -
Junior's Numismatic Lesson of the Day: Problems of the Early Mint
The Early Mint was plagued with problems and growing pains during the late eighteenth century. It took the Mint many years to iron out all the details and settle into better and better methods of minting coins. The planning required for minting coins in those first forty or so years ago was lengthy and complex. The… -
Re: How much do 'Traveling' Gold Buyers pay for coins.
It is a business that has been around a long time. When I was a kid, there was a guy who would go from house to house asking for 'old gold' items (always dressed below average, but not shabby)... as if the gold lost value when aged. He would pay for old rings, coins, jewelry...whatever gold items he could buy for very… -
Re: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo!!! (PCGS related)
<< <i>boo boo and her family are entertaining. Entertainment is what I look for when I flip the channels. I consider them highly successful at entertaining others. Glad to have her as a YN. >> Many child entertainers through the years were entertaining. Many also related, as adults, how horribly their lives were destroyed… -
Re: Here's a modern Transitional quarter
<< <i> << <i>Or in the case of this particular coin, when the 1964 and 1965 Quarters were being produced at the same time? >> Do we know that there was a period of time during which dies dated both 1964 and 1965 were simultaneously installed in running presses, thus causing the two to be produced concurrently? I'd think… -
Re: A NOT SO "Flawless" MS70 Silver Eagle
<< <i> << <i>Even a MS99+ coin falls apart when blown up to the size of a man hole cover. >> Same could be said for a MS70- no coin is absolutely perfect. >> A perfect planchet struck with perfect dies at perfect pressure with resultant perfect surfaces in a state of perfect preservation. Will industrial strength… -
Re: So, were the strong prices for gold stickered CAC coins just another tulip craze??
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Re: Real value of gold to governments
<< <i>Are you mistaking gold as an insurance policy. Lots of good folks bought into the insurance policy concept only to see their investment wiped out 30-50%, or worse yet, have seen 10-15% (or more), or their investable lifetimes elapse. Some have even died waiting for this insurance to pay off. I don't see it as…
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