Going off the gold standard gave the government new tools to steer the economy. If you're not tied to gold, you can adjust the amount of money in the economy if you need to. You can adjust interest rates. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/27/135604828/why-we-left-the-gold-standard JAM

There's been a lot of self-righteous hot air blown around in here about the virtues of dollar coins over dollar bills. But do those of you who blow the hardest put your money where your mouth is and actually use dollar coins? ~~ Vote McCain - Not Hussein

I haven't seen anything about this in Coin World (though my paper is always late), and there doesn't seem to be an announcement on the Collectors Universe web site, but according to Spring 2008 issue of The Brasher Bulletin, a Pioneer Gold Forum was convened by Don Kagin at FUN. Thanks to an...

From his coin world column: The 70-point grading system is clumsy, illogical, difficult to understand and has erratic spacing. Changing to a 100-point scale is difficult, but doable, and merits a discussion. Comments?

Here's the text of an e-mail sent 2 days ago..no response yet..probably never. My name is Ira Stein and I am a Lincoln Cent & Indian Head specialist. The coin you are currently selling as an AU on eBay is one of many hundreds of struck counterfeits that exist from this die pair. It has been...

Passed by the Board of Directors, November 25, 2006 We, the members of the Michigan State Numismatic Society, pledge ourselves to the highest standards of service to our hobby. Our desire is to use the arts and sciences that support numismatics to discover and promote the essential facts and...

This is a formidable collection, quite complete, including nearly all Sheldon Varieties of large cents, all varieties of the super rare 1796-1797 halves, and the auction ctalogs from Heritage (there are three) have much historic detail about the coins and are worthy of a fine numismatic...

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This is the "plan". You will not find the full details of "the plan" in writing on the web. you will only see it as it unfolds. Phase 1 has begun. http://tinyurl.com/awkqm Introduce the Presidential Golden Dollar Coins while continuing to make the Sacagawea Golden Dollar coins. Legislation...

Larry thank you for again running the RCC swap. I received my gift for being the 29th entry and do appreciate it. Larry had a surplus of new square one cent holders and sent them to 3 entries in the swap. However I currently have enough one cent holders and I would like to pass them on to other RCC...

I'm interested in purchasing 1 oz. gold American Eagles. The U.S. Mint appears to sell "proof" and "uncirculated" coins which, typically, sell at a "premium". I wish to invest in the gold content; "proof" is unimportant to me. Here's my question: How much in so- called "commission" can I...

Earlier this evening I ordered copies of the offical red book and blue book of united states coins. Is there anyplace online I can check for buy/sell prices until the books arrive? Thanks

How about making the dollar coin out of 90% silver, with a picture of an American bald eagle on the reverse, and a picture of George Washington on the obverse? Both designs should be done in traditional style, ala 1860's. Yes the dollar would be smaller..and the coin machines would have to be...

Hi Folks, Seeing some talk on here in recent days about toned coins has sort of "whetted my appetite" to obtain a nice Morgan that is both toned and slabbed. Those that I have are all of the raw variety, and none has dramatic toning. There are some on eBay that I've looked at, but if you have one...

Here's a coin-related topic. What a novel concept. g I've been reading a bit about the various techniques that are used to analyze the metallic composition of coins. This has utility in counterfeit detection, and with ancient coins it's useful in gaining deeper knowledge of them and the economic...

What’s the point of that? It already uses the Euro, so it’s not as if I’m going to get another kingfin coin set out of it, is it? At least Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia each produced a beautiful coin set, so the thousands of women and children who were used as stick- pigs didn’t die...

Starting well under my cost...and never before on eBay..let's see where the market will take this one! In an old, circa 1991 green label slab. See it at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39456&item=3967451710 Check out my 1914-D Lincoln Cent while you're there. Thanks.

On pages 50 and 51 of Coin News September edition, UK, there's an advert for an auction by Goldberg pre Long Beach Show, there are a few errors however. Eleven hammered English coins are described as "Britian" (sic) and only one correctly as "England". Three English milled coins are described as...

I want to know what the majority of this newsgroup wants when it comes to a few of the issues we've discussed. Where do you stand on: Eliminating the penny Eliminating the $1 FRN Adopting bill denominations above $100