On April 10, 2021, my friend and I did the unthinkable. We drove two and a half hours to Manchester, NH to attend a Coin Show. It had been two years since we went to one, and we had planned on going to this one in April 2020. Of course, […]
Tags Walking Liberty Half Dollars
A while back, I spoke about building a Wartime Nickel Set where every nickel was graded Mint State 67. Back in the late 1990s, I started purchasing them between EBay and Coin Shows. Each of them was graded and slabbed by NGC. I’ll explain about slabbed coins in a bit. […]
A Slabbed Coin Album
Happy New Year to my Coin Collecting friends! I hope that 2018 was a good year for you in terms of your numismatic ventures. I will talk about mine later, but first let’s talk about what we can expect for 2019. Commemoratives In 2018 we were introduced to the first […]
Coin Resolutions of 2019
4 A while back, I wrote about collecting a short set, or collecting certain coins in a set instead of a complete collection. Last year I finished a Jefferson Nickel short set which included 12 silver nickels that were minted during World War II. Eleven of them were uncirculated nickels in […]
Walking Liberty Short Set
4 As of October 18, 2016, Silver was at $17.60 per ounce. In the past 40 years, silver has peaked twice to around $50 per ounce in 1980 and 2011. Shortly after peaking, the price would crash. 2016 started off around $14 per ounce and would peak at $20.71 on August 2nd, […]
Buy! Buy! Buy!
8 The United States was still dealing with the Great Depression in 1938, though unemployment was on the decline. Germany had annexed Austria and the Sudetenland without an argument. Another World War was less than a year away, but what was happening with US coins. For the past few years before […]