Not too long ago when spot hopped over $15 my local pawn shop bought a stack of ASEs for $1 over spot. The first offer was about $5 under spot,...
I can buy a burger at Old McDonalds for three ASEs, so I guess silver can be currency, or is it that currency can be silver. The latter I believe....
I can always get at least $1 USD over spot for mint ASE, and never better than $1 under spot for generic. That is for a quick and easy sale to a...
When you sell a penny postcard for $60, a deck of ordinary playing cards for $140, a $1 restaurant plate for $75, and a peanut butter jar for $50,...
I have given some loose coppers to the grandkids, but mostly I keep them in capsules, nice presentation. I have silver/copper sets going for the...
And the "proof" version is $75. A strikingly nicer presentation - well worth the extra 20%, IMO.
When Christmas was illegal in (what was to become) the United States. "Puritans were particularly contemptuous of Christmas, nicknaming it...
More about Graeber. How Barter Followed and Did Not Precede the Creation of Money...
Currency backed by nothing (fiat) is at least 4000 years old. Before paper money there was Chinese coins from base metal, not silver or gold, but...
Over 20 years.
I bought some craftsman tool bags for my ammo cans - on sale at $5, fit perfectly, handles carry forty pounds no problem, great camouflage. My...
50 cal ammo cans are priced at about $20, I usually get my cheaper. Carrying handle. Nice.
Yes, the kids get the copper in airtires, and the grand kids (age 6 and under) get one in, one out. This is one of those potential sleepers for...
I've been buying some copper rounds started as speculation. When I give the kids a silver, I give them a copper counterpart too - when I have...
I wouldn't buy any -pocket change, I would keep them. I can imagine smelters don't like them, but collectors, different story. They will pay melt...
I corrected my previous post on that nickel - still just face value. I checked melt value, and 10 nickels melt to 45 cents, so yes, creeping up.
Yeah, nickel was too valuable for the war effort, so they used silver instead. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
That nickel is still worth 50 cents, average condition. I don't care who you are, that's a good return. The silver (35%) is in the war years,...
Since the 1980s I have been searching my pocket change for Wheat pennies (pre 1959), pre65 dimes, quarters, halves, nickels before 1967 (year I...
Myself or spouse have collected (and resold for profit) vintage oil lamps, kitchen bowls, rolling pins, cast iron skillets and other cookware,...
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