Pruning Your Coin Collection
Coins of these type are not the kinds of coins that make a coin collector proud to won them. Instead, they simply take up good resources that could be better spent elsewhere. Sometimes when you resources are limited, tough decisions must be made. ... [... more]
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Coin Collecting And Investing Tactics
Major coin shows are a good place to find a wide variety of the coins that you are looking for under one roof with knowledgeable dealers from all over the country. Internet auctions are risky at best, particularly when buying raw coins. Be very ... [... more]
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Finding Coins In Ordinary Places
Yes, it is still possible to find collectible coins in everyday places. With the increasing use of modern day coin counting machines, older rare coins can bounce from store to bank to who knows where without being noticed in the process. When ... [... more]
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Canadian Coin Collecting: Pleasures Vs. Treasures
To start the ball rolling, try to get as many coins or tokens as you can obtain without having to spend a great amount of money. Your parents or your grandparents may have some coins that they kept because they did not hold any monetary value at ... [... more]
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Coin Grading Tips
• Be sure to tilt the coin as you examine it. Beginners often make the mistake of looking at a coin “straight on.” Tilting the coin about 30 to 45 degrees both side-to-side and up-and-down will give you a better overall view of the coin. Doing ... [... more]
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The History Behind The Morgan Dollar
from the mine owners with all the cheap silver available on the marketplace from what is now Nevada to wait for the mountain passes to open from the winter snow. placed into circulation, it was not enough for the silver miners in the ... [... more]
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The Sacagawea Dollar
American credited as acting as a guide and an interpreter on the Louis and Clark that it would actually save this country more money to eliminate the $1 note and Dollar. The U.S. Mint website provided some of the information ... [... more]
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Another Scenario Of How The 1943 Copper Penny Came To Be
(remember "Rosie the Riveter"), and with what is usually left out of the history corner, there is a blue rubber stamping that is a circle with a thin circle just accident early in 1943, being mixed with a normal production run of steel ... [... more]
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Ron Guth Speaks Out On His Book
“’Coin Collecting for Dummies’ is really aimed at getting people excited about collecting coins, and it is not just for the beginner, but some of it is aimed at the advanced collector (someone who has been collecting for a while). It really is ... [... more]
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Coin Grading Services
Taylor also told me ANACS will have a surprise for Coin Collectors which will be collection, then both parties need to arrive at some sort of common consensus in other companies out there, but they seem to fall a little short in one aspect ... [... more]
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The First Coins Of The Americas
Ferdinand now had complete power. He isolated Johanna at the castle of Tordesilla. Upon Ferdinand's death in 1516, Johanna's son, Carlos, claimed together, and conquered the last Moorish strong hold in Iberia, Granada, to form In order to really ... [... more]
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The V.E. Day Canadian Maple Leaf
This silver Canadian Maple Leaf displays three ‘privy marks.’ This is the first time in the history of the Maple Leaf that three ‘privy marks’ have been displayed on a this coin. A ‘privy mark’ is like a mintmark struck on a coin. It is usually a ... [... more]
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