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Re: New Scam?
By the way guys... My dad was a pitchman till the day he died - he was friends with the Popeil brothers (pocket fisherman, vegomatic etc.) and others that pitched their wares on the street, local fairs, farmer's markets and on TV. He pitched snake oil in the days before the Pure Food and Drug Act clamped down on guys like… -
Re: Famous Baseball Quote Needed
"Here is a game in which there is no clock, the defense holds the ball, though it had rigid rules, every park is different, the greatest heroes fail seven times in ten, a game that is born in the spring and dies in the fall. This is life"...Ken Burns -
Re: Cherrypick of the year for me! Grade? (Many pictures)
Without the coin inhand...(btw...you would NEVER get it back ) I would venture to say that this would go AU55 possibly MS63 as these are known for the famous "mushiness" of the strike that and the fact that the dies were close to falling apart.... -
Re: fed cuts by .75 key interest rate
I know tons of people think a falling dollar will only help the rest of the world and our economy alone will faulter, but the fact is that if the US economy died, then more than likely the whole world would feel it as was seen this weekend. -
Re: 1954 S Jeff - Super rainbow or AT?
54S Jeffs are notorious for worn dies so a MS coin can easily pass for a worn coin, as for the toning it looks to me as a blue Whitman Album toned coin, so IMO that falls under NT, but some feel that is AT Steve -
Re: FBI abandons decades-old D.B. Cooper investigation
BTW, guy either died during the fall or lost the money during the paradrop and bailed on it in the dark. None of the money ever surface in circulation, just some found in the woods. Fascinating story, but the guy never got what he wanted... -
Re: Redfield Morgans
Another bit of trivia about the hoard. It would have been even larger but Redfield had a burglery a year or two before he died and they got away with about 100 bags of dollars. His dollars were hidden behind a false wall in the cellar with a note not to let the tax man know about them. Unfortunately they were discovered BY… -
Re: interesting Ft. Knox conspiracy theory tidbit
<< <i>we know a lot about her >> WOW, makes ya wonder, interesting enough that this article mentions Firestone toward the end. Harvey Firestone III died in 1960! How you ask? falling out a window In Havana -
Re: Central American Republic 8 reales 1824
I understand his logic. The monedasdeguatemala.com website states that the Central American Republic coin designs and dies were made by prominent Guatemalan artists and engravers Jose Casildo Espana and Francisco Cabrera. That is, the government of the Central American Republic did not order the development of the coin… -
Re: What drives the disconnect betweenthe "Spot" price on Futures vs. Selling price of Physical Metal?
spot price likely to decline in the short term as dollar index predictions for the short term have the DI moving from it's current 98.50 to up to 104.00. Be interesting to see if premiums hold as spot falls. This will actually indicate an increase in premiums.
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