From: Richard The specs say it's composed of .900 gold and .100 copper, so does that mean it's worth at least 9/10th of the current gold spot? No, this is the norm. "Gold spot" is the price of bullion gold. The current composition of United States Bullion gold is 91.67% gold, 3% silver, and...

Just today I opened a small letter from Jerry and saw a cardboard packet in the envelope. After fighting to get it opened I found a very nice bicentennial Ike and a very nice Irish one Euro. Then I remembered that I was a runner up for a contest. Both will have good homes. Thanks Jerry. Devilish...

The French Jeton arrived this week! Is it a jeton? I really haven't figured out exactly what a jeton is. I believe that this particular piece is a savings and loan token the largest and oldest bank in France had made to give to the board members as a momento when they met. The silver ones are...

I've happened upon a box of Maine P quarters in plastic wrapped rolls. Does anyone need some to complete their collection? I'll sell them at face plus actual shipping. Email me (remove the spam block) or post here. I'm only going to keep them until Monday, then back to the bank they go. Risa Age...

anyone know the approximate value of uncirculated 1964 us coins? this is a mint issue set.

Good day, Please take a look a some nice Netherlands and other world coins closing on ebay. Links to highlights and overall offerings given below. Thank you for your interest and bids, Bruce Netherlands & colonies coins http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=45154&item=3049511411

Hi y'all. I have been working on my Large Cent collection for about a year now, you know how it goes, very slowly. The first ten years are out of sight pricewise to a regular working guy like me, but I have picked up some nice pieces on Ebay so little by little. I pulled the Washington Quarter...

Just received my Oct 6 Coin World with their enclosed new COIN Values supplement. Looks pretty impressive! As I started going through it, my first reaction was that I was wading through pages and pages of ads. But I guess the cost of this new "magazine" has to come from somewhere. I also realize...

Been adding to my coin pages. At the beginning of the Glom section I illustrate the most attractive and least attractive female countenances to ever grace coins. In my view, of course: http://rg.ancients.info/glom The first coin reminds me of my second wife, the second coin of my first wife....

Paul Myers (paul410) passed away on sept 10th. Paul had colon cancer. I believe he was only 38 years old. He was a very good friend and will be dearly missed. May he rest in peace. .......................................... -Dana

I stopped @ a Starbucks drive thru yesterday . bought a small cup, came to $1.30, took my change & drove on ! Checking my pocket change this morning I find 2 nice 1979 SBA's, a 1961 silver Roosy & a clad one, best cup of coffe I ever had !! BTW, that;s the 1st time I ever got anything wortwhile in...

The Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention is happy to announce that the bourse for December 2003 is already larger than the super convention we had last March. And more dealers are requesting table information every day now. Dealers call Ed Kuszmar at 561-392-8551 or Gordon W. Berg at...

Here is what I found about the 2 euro commemorative I mentioned in another message. OLYMPIC COIN EC gives go-ahead for minting of commemorative 2-euro piece The European Commission yesterday gave the go-ahead to the Greek government to mint a commemorative 2-euro coin to boost the budget of the...

FA: exonumia on eBaY closing TONIGHT ... (Oop, fergot to post this yesterday ...) Closing tonight, October 1st: Twenty lots of tokens, including Civil War tokens, merchant tokens and a few miscelleneous items. Also twenty lots of medals, from various states plus a few So-Called Dollars and coin...

This happened Today for 3 Unc. Half Dollars !! Bob -- Dr. Robert C. Brannon SciTech, LLC

After the thread about on-line auctions a few weeks ago (I know, which thread?) I registered at Heritage. Last week I won two classic commems from their Exclusively Internet Auction. I never received any email confirmation and it was two days later before I got an invoice on their site. Up to...

How many receiver the Wright Brothers Comm. Today. I received Three Unc @ 9:49AM Cant wait for the UNC dollar Received the Gold Unc about a week ago Bob

How do you tell if a 1981 proof set is a type 2?

Received the Half Dollar This AM...........COOL Bob

The other day while organizing my slabs, I noticed some strange toning. These are all late PCGS slabs, PR-69 DCAM. Half are in blue PCGS plastic boxes and the other half are in in the smoke colored NGC boxes. I found that the clad SBA's & the clad JFK's in the NGC boxes all have a very attractive ...