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My John Marshall commems showed up today. 2 each, proof and unc. Proofs are very nice with very nice packaging. My first modern commem. Hope I made the right choice.

Oh my gawd! And so the backlash begins. Where does it end? Federal inspectors regulating third party grading services? Complete Federal reporting of all coin transactions done at your local coin dealer and bourse floors? State registration and credentialing of numismatic dealers? I know so far it is only at the state level, and in only one state, but it is directly tied to a federal campaign, and a large federal campaign rainmaker. The Feds are just waiting and watching till they crash the party.

Yes, does anyone know of an image of this coin in question?

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Both true! But there is one aspect of his life that is tied with France that he is being honored for. You are so close you are about to burst into flame...

I read with interest in my latest edition of Coin World that France is looking at producing a commem next year to honor and celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. That coin will probably be my first modern French commem to be added to my collection. When I told my wife about it, she gave me a puzzled look. I asked her what was wrong, and she said "Why is France having a coin for Benjamin Franklin." I just smiled at her. Anyone here know the answer without looking it up?

I had tinkered around with the idea of a “hobby” that would allow me to do something that I would enjoy, and be worth something at the end as well. I have always enjoyed history, so I looked at stamp collecting. Didn’t take long, not my cup of tea at all. I had lived through the baseball, football, hockey, Nascar card crazes, and wanted no part of that. That left teapots or coins. I chose coins. It then did not take me long to realize that all the really neat looking U.S. coins I was liking cost a full arm, part of a leg, and sometimes a right eye as well. Man, U.S. coins can be expensive for being as “young” as they are. So surfing the internet I found a bunch of sites for “darkside” coins. Granted, I could not read a lot of them as I barely can read and speak the Queen’s English, but I can understand pictures. And world coins are beautiful, and remarkably affordable compared to U.S. coins. My ancestral roots are from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Those were the first three countries I started with. It has now moved like most collections to the pat “anything I find pretty” area. I love the darkside coins. I just wish I had a local dealer who would deal in foreign coins, instead of treating the word “foreign” as an obscenity.

Wow Tiffi! Do you mean that your world collection just took off after you became a member here? If that is true, you have amased some great coins in a very short time.

I am just freaking out how Rodney has 775 posts in 12 days! That figures out to what... Living on the boards? We won't even talk about the bunny and those posting numbers...

My 2005 Silver Proof Sets! They are really clean this year, so much so I am thinking about ordering two more sets and cracking them out and submitting individual coins. Good looking coins got delivered to me at least.

No, that cannot be correct, as I have been in the Numismatic Books area, and it is showing a complete icon with the initals IPB. So just how does this morphing icon work?

Ah, so when you see the whole thing, complete with words, it means that you have never been in that area? When you see it with the little tick mark on the bottom right means new posts in this area, and a ghosted icon means nothing new?

What does this Icon mean? The IPB part? I realize it has something to do with new posts in that section, but I cannot find a reference to it anywhere. Thanks.

Found here Transline and they are only wholesale. No retail. Thanks for the tip though, if I ever want to set up shop, I at least now have a supplier contact.

It has been my experience in my somewhat limited travels in the numismatic world that the graders of early Large American coppers are a very anal group. They grade very tightly, and with very unbending rigid standards. Coins that I would grade a full, maybe even two, grades higher are constantly being knocked down due to this minor strike in the field or this rim knock. Early Copper graders are a tough bunch!

Good catch there Art. See, there really is something under that hat!

Bravo

What a hoot

Well Dan your post means that you did not get the now famous Christmas 2004 card from Art. If you drop Art your snail mail address maybe you can get a Christmas 2005 version!

I am looking to purchase some SuperSafe self sealing 2x2's. JP's corner has about the best prices on the net for them, BUT they have a brick and mortar store in Missouri, so if I order from them I have to pay not only shipping I have to pay TAX! And man that really gets under my skin to have to pay both. One or the other and I can deal, but not both. So, anyway, besides JP's corner, where can I get these wonderful self sealing 2x2's for a resonable price? I would have thought that Brent-Krueger would have them, but I cannot get the SuperSafe brand to come up. They are selling standard staple 2x2's. Thanks for any help in this.

I would thank her for clearing her black heart conscience, and then clear my own by talking with an attorney to file a civil suit (after we check to see if the statue of limitations has run out for criminal charges) to recover the value of the collection. That should help her ease her conscience even more. Holy crap.

In an effort to stick to a grocery budget, we go to the bank/ATM each payday and pull out some cash for the grocery store. Our thinking is that if we just have cash, we will stick the list and not buy a bunch of junk food, running the budget over. The wife had asked me to go to the grocery store on Saturday, and gave me the cash she had pulled from the ATM. 7 brand new, in consective order $20 bills. They were so crisp! As I am looking at them and seeing that they are in consective order, she says "No! Rick you cannot keep pulling all my grocery money out and keeping it just because they are new and in order!" I told her not to worry, I would replace the $140 with a true and trusted source of funds, a check! I got 7 new $20 for the collection, and we got our food. Win Win!

Ohhhh... Uno Peso! I have this note as well. Love the Reverse as much as the Aztec sun calendar on the Obverse. I think Mexico has some very nice notes. Especially pre-revolution.

I got some Oregon P&D quarters, a really nice German 1 mark 1907 and a nice 1873 20 Pfennig in the mail. All of it from Tiffibunny. Thank you to her! I also got a new edition of Coin World so I can read some more about the mess in Ohio.

I have not used albums to store my coins in, mainly because I do not want the album to tone out my coins. I would like an album that you can put 2x2's or air-tites in the proper areas and can see the obverse and reverse that way. Maybe this album already exists and I just have not found it. For now, I just keep my type sets together in 2x2 coin trays I get from Lighthouse