It turns out my bank actually has rolls of the new Washington pres. dollar coins. My husband casually asked about it while he was there and called to tell me he's bringing home a few. (Coins not rolls). Yay. I am going to ask him to just get a whole roll of them, and I am going to try to do...

We here at RCC have over the years accomplished some significant things. Here's list that I will start & others should add to: 1. World's first Internet issued token. 2. Established legal fund for those involved in the ACG fracas. 3. Donations for Larry Calder's widow along with card and 5 Embers...

I would like to make about $50,000 disappear. I promise I'm not dealing in unlawful activities. The money is mine from an inheritance. I want to use $100 bills, and I want them close to me. Since the possibility of fire forces me to keep them out of the main body of the house, probably in the...

No one got it right on a different forum, so I thought I'd give the more seasoned usenet pros a shot :P http://mycoinportal.com/images/1919US.jpg

I've been reading through more of the articles I'd gathered but hadn't yet gotten around to reading about the world's first coins and tweaking my page about what I consider to be the very first, adding lots of additional stuff: http://rg.ancients.info/lion/ This is all written in stone -- it's...

Got mine ordered on the first day, what was it, January 17nd, 1873 or something? Anyway they showed up today. The mint got cheap. The box had crumpled paper instead of plastic airbags in it. My Coin and Krinkles set says it's backordered until May, 2096 or something. The coins are round and...

The city assembly of Athens issued no plated tetradrachms. So-called "emergency issue" tetradrachms ("owls") of circa 406-404 BCE are all counterfeits. Some are ancient counterfeits. Some are modern fakes. None was issued officially as an emergency coin by the citizens at assembly. There do...

I frequent a coin store in the city that has a reasonable selection of foreign coins and notes. I'm a regular buyer, and I've gotten several friends and co-workers to come in and buy as well. Wednesday, they had nine bags, 1 pound each, of foreign coins out on the shelf. WooHoo!- a chance to fill...

Just want to say "hi" and hope I can contribute something to the group. Thanks. Thomas

Been gone a while! I'm sure everybody missed me. I'll never really get caught up on the posts, I'm guessing, so I pretty much just cleared the docket and am starting over from a clean slate, kind of how I want to do with collecting. I was starting to get a little down and disinterested in...

Recently I reported that I had dropped off my worn copy of the Breen Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins at a bindery. They promised to sew the pages together and re-install them into the original cover, with new pastedowns and freefly. I picked up my book the other day and can attest to...

Things don't look good.

I've totally lost my faith in the human race. People lie, cheat, steal, kill, and worst of all overgrade coins. My cynicism runneth over. Here's an auction for an 1804 half cent. Cool year. The coin is holed, as some were, and some collect 'em holed (weirdoes). But the seller otherwise describes...

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 00:40:04 GMT, R. Vail wrote: The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, which aims to name at least one public landmark in each state for the 40th president, continues to push Coverdell's idea. Reagan's legacy was a $3,000,000,000,000 increase in the...

Obama has promised to spend the country into prosperity. Goes right along with fighting for peace and ****ing for virginity... Can you say "hyperinflation"?

I was Larry Calder's swap partner last year. The gift he sent me really moved me. Even though we were in the $10 price range group, he managed to find me a coin that was beautiful and uniqe, a lovely PCGS slabbed Kennedy half with a cameo made by toning. One of a kind. I could tell he was very...

I posted earlier trying to get info from previous swap coordinators, but I found all my old information, and believe I'm quite ready to handle my hosting duties this year (but if any previous coordinators want to give me some advice, things to avoid, etc.. I'm all ears!) Anyways, I want to get...

In an anonymous email message I received yesterday I was called a coward for not responding to yet another of Alan Williams' periodical attack posts. I deleted this goading junk, as I delete all junk email, as soon as I saw what it was about. Though I've been trying lately to turn the other cheek...

I figure it's about time I looked into snipe programs, since I seem to always be the snipee, and I want to be the sniper! I'm often not around a computer for auction end, and want to see if these programs will help me win some auctions I otherwise lose, or don't even attempt to bid on. I did a...

This was the title of an article in the Celator, a well-regarded and recommended publication about ancient coins, that I recently dug up at the library. It's an article from 1992 that's a translation of a 1968 article in French by M. Jean Mazard. I had hoped it would delve in detail into the...