Good morning, friends! Got an email from a friend wondering what the heck those coins are above (his subject line was literally: “Fake dimes?!”), and after being stumped for a few minutes I did some sleuthing :) Turns out, these aren’t actually fake coins at all – they’re ... [Full Post]
Good morning! So last week we showed off my new custom coin *board* that a friend of mine gave me in a trade, and as I was complimenting him on how helpful it’s been for me lately he shot me a picture of his latest creation… A custom ... [Full Post]
Hello coin lovers! Picked up a pretty cool tool recently and thought I’d share :) It’s a custom coin board built by a friend of mine to make sorting easier! How cool is that?! He’s a huge *foreign coins* guy and routinely sorts though pounds worth of bags ... [Full Post]
Good morning! So we’re a year late with this post, haha, but I still wanted to share because I found the whole process of figuring out I had fake coins on my hands, as well as WHAT TO DO WITH THEM afterwards?, super interesting. And my hope is ... [Full Post]
A new client of mine shot me a pic of this coin she inherited from her great grandfather (who once worked at a grist mill!), and I immediately had to stop what I was doing to research it ;) I didn’t get a pic of the obverse, but ... [Full Post]
So I finally wrapped up evaluating that collection I mentioned in the last post, and wow – what a doozy! The collection itself was fine (approx. 10 hours spent which is normal for this amount of coins), but it was the last pile of “weird coins” I saved ... [Full Post]
As promised, here’s that collection I was working on! I call it the “Z” Collection here, but in my documentation I actually have the client’s name swapped in the quotations which I like cuz it makes it feel more *personal*. And, of course, that’s how all the professionals ... [Full Post]
I’m looking over a collection for a friend, and saw this double sided coin holder in it! It’s the ugliest – but also the prettiest! – coin holder I have yet to see! Lol… Check it out: [For perspective] [Side view] [The back?] It looks like it should ... [Full Post]
Good morning! It’s been a couple of years since our last post here, but I couldn’t help myself to log back in and share this current trend going down in our community… Fake $100 bills are showing up at locations and no one knows where they’re coming from! ... [Full Post]
Good morning! An old friend recently shared this with me and thought it was too cool not to forward along :) One of the first coins I ever picked up myself was from an old shipwreck and they’re excellent gateways into collecting! I don’t think my friend here ... [Full Post]