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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… -
GTG - Impossible Edition? (1911 Proof Quarter Eagle)
There are some coins out there where I just throw my hands up and give an educated guess. They're usually the coins where I never expected to need to know how to grade them, so I never learned the special rules for those types or took the time to look at enough examples to be able to figure out the rules behind them. The… -
Re: 2026 NFL Draft thread
Your right about the public figure for sure however Vrabel doesn't need to entertain it, he can say F off and let the chips fall as they do. Yes I think he will be somewhat involved in the draft but then again some how some way someone will dig up a text or email or just open their mouth and that will completely discount… -
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… -
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… -
Re: Read this: ebay sellers tirade!!!!
<< <i> MIKE DICAMILLO, 360 PROTECTION AVE. APT.# L-13 HERKIMER, NY. 13350 >> All of his cards are fake -- including the graded cards in the off brand holders. And while I do find it very entertaining to watch you guys harass him, I think he should just be reported to eBay instead. The only reason I feel that way is because… -
Re: Showcase of the Union in Coins, Currency, and Tokens
Kentucky County, also known as Kentucke County and the District of Kentucky, was the westernmost county in the commonwealth of Virginia from 1776 until it was admitted to the Union as the 15th state in 1792. The entire existence of Kentucky County was in the context of the Western theater of the American Revolutionary War.…
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