Author: Jay
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Half a Penny For Your Thoughts?
Got this coin for Xmas and keep meaning to share it with you: A half a penny – hah! Crudely cut, and at least 160 years old as you can barely make out the “18” from”1800″ in the year mark before it got chopped off, haha… (These Braided Hair Large Cents were only made from…
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Miss Stamped Penny On One Side?
Hey y’all! it’s been a while, eh? Still collecting over there? Get anything new or juicy lately? While I’ve been quite on the blog front here, I’ve definitely been anything but in the background. I recently started helping people liquidate their unwanted collections again (Best. Job. Ever.), and I gotta say – I’ve been thoroughly…
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The Never-Ending Coin Club! [UPDATE: Now Closed]
Hey coin friends! Happy New Year!! It’s been a while since my last post here, but I’m back in action after rearranging my life/career more, and I’m happy to say that coin collecting/talking has made the cut ;) Although of course once a coin collector, always a coin collector! (Heyo!) So we’re back at it…
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New Trade: 1835 Half Cent for 18th Century Gold Fanam & Cash
Did a trade the other day I thought you’d find interesting :) I had picked up this 1835 “Classic Head” half cent years ago when I first started collecting and didn’t know what the heck I was doing (“buy the book before the coin,” right?) and finally after multiple attempts I was able to find…
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5 Ideas For Your Old Red Books!
In a fit of decluttering recently, I came across 6 old red books of mine which I’ve religiously kept since the dawn of my collecting (i.e. Summer of 2012). I initially thought they’d never be pried away from my hands as I tend to obsess about stuff I love, but it quickly became apparent that…
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The Contents of Kyle’s Shoebox!
Three years ago a blogger friend of mine left a comment on this blog teasing about an old box of coins he had inherited: I didn’t think much of it at the time, however, over the years it started garnering more comments about it than any actual blog post I’ve written myself ;) Here’s one…
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Some Good Luck & Alcohol Tokens
What up what up! Came back from our coin club last night with a handful of new tokens I accidentally picked up :) So hard to deny though when there’s pictures of BEER and SKULLS on them!! When do you ever find those on coins??? Here’s some pics on them all, along with a little…
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Interesting Articles I Enjoyed This Week
I’m going to start saving all the articles I come across and like in the coin/currency world to start sharing them all with y’ all. There’s some fascinating stuff out there! Here are the ones I enjoyed from this week: Is This The Very First U.S. Coin? @ NPR — “In 2013, David McCarthy spotted…
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The Coin Necklace Heirloom!
This is a post about two very surprising things that happened recently: one awesome one, and one not so awesome one ;) Let’s start with the awesome, shall we? My mother found a coin necklace passed down through my family! She found it while cleaning out some old drawers, and the second she handed it…
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Still Alive and Collecting! You?
It’s been about 5 months since our last posting here (sorry!), but to my collection’s delight I’m still very much collecting and immersing myself into this wide wonderful world of coins and currency :) In fact, just the other month I started two new focuses that’s since reignited my collecting passion! I don’t know about…
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