The media bought it. The voters bought it. And now some in Congress are resisting the idea of congressional hearings because they believe that Barack Obama's "birth certificate" has been posted online. Not so. What was posted was not a birth certificate, but something that resembles a...

Back from the holiday break with over $50,000 in new purchases from two Southwest shows which will be listed during in the next month or two. . Most coins under $100 catalog value, all started at one cent with no reserve. http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZfrankcoins Thanks for looking.

I am suddenly in posession of 20 Buffalo silver dollars and will probably liquidate. Can someone give me some idea of a fair price I should ask. Also, Grandfather's birthday was in 1921 and he saved a 371 circulated silver dollars (mostly the newer type) and someone said they were worth a "small...

Dealer Brian Fanton reports that his car was broken into Jan. 23 in the Houston, Texas area, among the missing coins: Three red 1.5-inch triple-row boxes and one black 1.5-inch triple row box containing more than 1,200 coins including flying eagle cents, barber dimes, sac dollars, Mercury dimes...

Ideas about coin cleaning are interesting. Much about the general revulsion in the U.S. coin collector community about cleaning coins is a reaction to the harsh cleaning that damaged coins in the past, and you frequently see people shout, "Never clean a coin!" But ancient coins are routinely...

Numismatic Online Writers http://coinpeople.com/index.php?showforum=220 Michael E. Marotta mmarotta Forum Moderator FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Numismatic Online Writers (NOW) is a forum for regular posters on websites, Usernet newsgroups, listservs, and other electronic media. Coin People...

Since I have been posting here, I top post 95% of the time. But I know there are some here who are mightily upset by top posting. I don't expect unanimity on this issue, but what's anybody's choice and your logic behind it? James 'top posting just seems more efficient'

Warning: mini-rant I decided recently to assemble a set of modern proofs in PCGS PR69DCAM slabs. I set my price at $10 per coin - which is reasonable for most varieties, but will take time to find on eBay. Often, I will find a seller offering many different dates. One such seller (lccoins)...

Yep! That was the gas price per gallon at a station that I often stop at in Arlington, VA. A couple of weeks ago, it had dropped to $1.839. For every gallon, that's 24 cents that I won't be able to look through for keelboat nickels or cents or Iowa quarters. I'm...

I'm just curious. If you get GDs from the bank, please tell us what city/state and if you are getting "commingled" (SBA/GD) or pure GDs. If you can take a stab at the ratio of SBAs to GDs go for it and if you know what kinds of rolls you get (hand rolled, machine rolled (paper), machine rolled...

From: Jim Wild ) Subject: rookie collector questions Date: 2004-10-02 11:35:03 PST Speaking of stunning pieces, we all know about the 1933 DE duplicate. Now there is a $10 indianhead Eagle of the proof variety for $19.95 or so. Are these duplicates just worthless,...

Recently I was high bidder on what was described as a 1936 US PROOF TRIBUTE SET. Further research proved, after I had bid on the item assuming it was a real 1936 Proof Set, that it was not. Accorind to the Hobby Protection Act, such sets must be marked by "copy" or "replica". I do not believe this...

"JSTONE9352" wrote in message ... This is really something. Who would figure a car could just come out of nowhere and into a crowd of people like that. 9 people were killed and many hurt. I don't know if he was senile or...

Just read a recent article in Coin World regarding technical vs. market grading. I am still confused as to the difference. Now technical grading seems straighforward. It's market grading that throws me for a loop. According to the article PCGS, for example, states " A numerical grade that matches...

CBS smeared our brave President with fake documents just weeks before Election Day. They coordinated their attack with the John Kerry campaign before they aired their smear. They covered up their coordination for 13 days until other media outlets forced them to admit it. Want your election...

I found this web site to be unique, disturbing but totally compelling. I couldn't stop until I had see it all! The girl has a interesting sense of humor?sarcasm? absurdity? An interesting commentary anyway. Don't think I have ever seen it posted here but then there have been a lot of OT post over...

Maybe I am a naieve, old fashioned southern lady, but why would anybody want to foul up a decent discussion group on the topic of numismatics with filth? Some of the topics are embarrassing and I venture into the message before I realize what it is. Dirty men with nothing better to do, I suppose....

Along with the third grade art school reject for the logo, the ANA redesigned the Numismatist, to get it updated to the times. In an effort to get away from its reputation as a bunch of stodgy articles of very limited interest, it's now taken the "hip" road and become much more like a newsstand...

All of us who collect coins have our favorites. Personally, I like to collect Morgans by VAMs. On the other hand, I am sure we all look at some aspect of the hobby, and say to ourselves, HUH??!! I don't get it! For example, I just don't get the registry set craze, especially for modern business...

I found this in my e-mail backlog: "I received an e-mail today from a new customer who says that he was recommended by Jim Feely (jstonefeel), who he says passed away about a week ago from a heart attack. I hope that's not true." Does anyone know the accuracy of this? Alan