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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, but I mentioned a well known silver dealer 2 hours away (two days by postal), who pays $2 over spot, and told them I would give $1/oz for local...

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. Like you, there are others more knowledge than myself on this issue.

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 walk-in dealer. When spot bounced above $18 last January I sold a 1k kook to Gainesville coins for about 50 cents over spot. Nice people.

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, you start to have an interest in collectables. My purchase investment for all of those items was about $20, which makes it even more interesting.

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 kids (not grandkids). They like the esthetics of the copper as much as the silver. I have ordered the display cases. In for a penny, in for a pound, as...

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 "Foolstide" and banning their flock from any celebration of it throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. On the first Dec. 25 the settlers spent in Plymouth...

More about Graeber. How Barter Followed and Did Not Precede the Creation of Money http://p2pfoundation.net/How_Barter_Followed_and_Did_Not_Precede_the_Creation_of_Money This is talking about systematic bartering, not one caveman trading a flint arrowhead for some berries.

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 before that there were credits, fiat money. To make his point as clear as possible, Graeber (p. 29) quotes from Caroline Humphrey's Cambridge...

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 buddy helping me move said 'These tools sure are heavy.' He never gave it a second thought.

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 collectors. The relatively high markup on collector stuff is very often what was cheap or free when it was manufactured. Have a cigar box full of...

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 them. They are enjoying the copper as much as the silver for esthetics. I'm certainly not expecting $100 silver, but if it happens, the copper is sure to...

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 value+, with no intentions of melting. Melt value is 94 cents, and collectors will gladly pay that. I checked my inventory - 47 total, 6 per-war, no...

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, 1942-1945. http://coins.about.com/library/US-coin-values/bl-US0005-Jefferson-Nickels-1938-1964-Values.htm Those old nickels just 'look nice'. I could...

Since the 1980s I have been searching my pocket change for Wheat pennies (pre 1959), pre65 dimes, quarters, halves, nickels before 1967 (year I graduated high school - completely arbitrary). I recently went through them with a grandson. I have about 5 rolls of Wheaties (plus a few I bought at...

Myself or spouse have collected (and resold for profit) vintage oil lamps, kitchen bowls, rolling pins, cast iron skillets and other cookware, various ephemera, advertising, and a bunch of stuff not really collected, just bought and sold for profit.