This will appear on RCC before my letters arrive. The Michigan State Numismatic Society granted me their ROETHKE AWARD for the best article of the year. "Copper Owls" was about the emergency coinage of Athens c. 404 BC. I never take awards lightly. I always find them humbling. This is no less...

I printed out the names and had my wife draw a winner. This was actually a drawing I was just wondering what people would write about when they entered.

Received my swap from TXEagle, US $10-25, 10 very nice, circulated Indian head cents 1897-1907 all evenly worn and with the some red poking thru on a couple of them. Always liked this series, and have a few dates, now I'm forced to complete it:) Thanks again TXEagle, And Bobby Shaw organizing...

My daughter made her first coin find from circulation on Saturday while we were shopping for her brother's Christmas present. It was a 1958 Philly mint cent, probably in VF condition. Not valuable like a 14-D but then it is a first for her so she is very very excited. Dave -- If you reply via...

Since Andrew was so quick at guessing/deducing the medal I hope to obtain this coming Sunday, I will hold part II of the contest. The prize will be a U.S. proof set guaranteed to be at least 25 years old. all you have to do is *GUESS MY FINISHING TIME* for the 2003 Seattle Marathon Rules,

Best Baltimore show I ever attended. Wanted to buy just a modest inventory to tide me over until the FUN show in early Jan, but spent almost double my intended goal. The bad weather kept lots of the collecting public away, so dealers were able to work close to make things happen. I SOLD the...

According to the Weather channel this morning. Very bad timing for the coin show. Just one of those things you can't control.

I've read on the NCS site that they offer grade protection on submittals, at their discretion. If this protection were afforded a particular NGC slabbed submission, I assume that this implies that they guarantee that NGC will regrade it at current level... My question though that I didn't see in...

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I never tried one of these before. A LOT of work to put together, but also loads of fun. I'm curious to see how it does: http://tinyurl.com/y6oo Thank you for looking. If you don't look then, well, thank you for being .... you! : ) --Keith

All are better than good. The scans, umm, are lame... The guy running the scanner (me) ought to stick to ANA politics where he can't hurt anyone. ;) The starting prices on these large cents are all $9.99, and they all have reasonable BINs. Liberal return privilege, of course. Large cents are...

I have several great coin auctions with Free Shipping available at Yahoo. Just follow the link below. Thanx Brian http://user.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/ca/user/canuckcoins

At last Richard Trevithick is to be recognised as the father of the locomotive.In celebation of the first steam engine run at Penydarren, Wales 200 years ago the Royal Mint is to issue a £2 coin in January 2004. You can find out more info and pre-order the coin at www.trevithick-coins.co.uk

OOPS. Not enough sleep. Not a RADAR Brick. Yes, it's a Hybrid 2003 Brick with a bundle of sequential 1995 Star notes. (More exciting than a RADAR note anyway...) -Fred Shecter -- ""Remove "zorch" from address (2 places) to reply. "Fred Shecter" wrote in...

A buyer tells me "please send the paypal request"? Do they want me to send them the URL to paypal or ? Should I suggest they just go to the auction and click on the paypal logo?

For auction this week on eBay: 1982-D Washington Half Dollar NGC MS68 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2209042034 1984-P Olympic Silver Dollar ANACS MS69 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2209042754 2003-P First Flight Dollar ANACS...

Seems to be a proliferation of acid treated buffs on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2207086139&category=524

I luv this discription/explaination! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2208890654&category=11954

Now stretching the truth irks me (to a greater or lesser degree depending on how far it is stretched, i.e., I "do" recognize that a seller has to put some "sizzle in the streak"), but outright falsehoods that result in a collector paying thousands of dollars fow what is most probably nothing really...