Just back from my vacation and wanted to report that I found a $5 coin on the beach! Normally this would be a great find except I was vacationing in Jamaica and the coin was a Jamaican $5 - worth about 8 1/2¢. Subject line was good anyway!

I dropped by the last San Jose Coin Club show at Parkside Hall on the Sunday to pick up some common mexican coins for some friends. As admission was free I put the $4 into raffle tickets and forgot about them. Last night I checked the mail and found I had won one of those cute little gold Dos...

The description of one of the large cent lots in the Jules Reiver/Heritage sale includes the phrase "some reddish corrosion" and states that "the reverse surface quality prevents viewing of the characteristic die cracks that are always present." The header says "Damaged. NCS Fine details. ...

http://actionlyme.org John Nowakowski http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=nowakowski%5BAll%20Fields%5D%20AND%20%28%22borrelia%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20borrelia%5BText%20Word%5D%29

FA: exonumia closing on eBay tonight ... Closing tonight, Wednesday, January 25th: Twenty lots of medals, including items from Ridgefield CT, Washington DC (Daughters of the American Revolution) Arcadia FL, Des Moines IA, Plymouth MA, Detroit MI (General Motors 1954), Saginaw MI (General Motors...

Hello Fellow Group Members, As of 01/23/2006 I have updated my price list and also the supplies list (which now includes tubes, coin holders, flips, currency holders, storage boxes, and MAX staplers.) If you wish to order, inquire on whether an item is available, or have questions, please send an...

Back in November I wrote: Oh yeah. Also, it will sell for $65,000 plus the juice.... I was a bit off. It actually went for $32,200 with the fees ($28,000 without). --

Am I strange, or does anyone else fell the need to take a shower after reading the PCGS US coins forums? -- Ed. Stoebenau a #143

I made my first numismatic purchase of 2006 on Jan. 9th. Normally I don't get to make my first acquisition in the new year until March or so due to holiday bills and getting ready for the dreaded IRS taxes. This looks like a promising numismatic year for me unlike in the past 5 years :-) My first...

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I go through 2 boxes of dollar coins I get each week as well as a bundle of $2000 in Twos. This weeks finds: 2000 dollars total (2 boxes of 1000 dollars each - 40 rolls of 25 coins) First box was only 10% SBA and second box was 15% SBA. Extremely low SBA percentage and dropping as the months go...

Has ANACS issued there new slab and have any hit the eBay market yet?

Has ANACS issued there new slab and have any hit the eBay market yet?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3420&item=8377230748

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8375378965&ssPageName=MERC_VI_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BID_Stores_IT

The auction is half over, closing Friday evening http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8375762922

Of bids that is. http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa060124_mo_reivercollection.3618a0e5.html

All the off topic posts you see here were started by the prolific hate-monger and usenet troll "gogu" as off topic posts in a greek newsgroup and *cross-posted* in a deliberate trolling attack by gogu on several other newsgroups Gogu's twisted aim has always been to attract attention and...

Many that post and have read rcc for a long time will know that I collect Austrian coins tokens and medals. Like many that specialize in any collecting category, I fixated on it for a long time (6 years so far). And of course probably bored my audience on rcc to tears with my particular interest...

All the off topic posts you see here were started by the prolific hate-monger and usenet troll "gogu" as off topic posts in a greek newsgroup and *cross-posted* in a deliberate trolling attack by gogu on several other newsgroups Gogu's twisted aim has always been to attract attention and...