Archive for the ‘Coins’ Category
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Our church has been focusing on the topic of money in its sermons and study groups for the past several weeks. Today's sermon started out with some facts I hadn't known before about the history of the motto that appears on all proper examples of today's United States money.
First, a ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Squirrelers is a clever guy. Instead of settling for a free lunch at a local lunch joint every seven visits, he's cut that down in half. With the "buy six, get the seventh free" deal, the shop gives a starter stamp when they hand out the card. So, practically, it's ...
Posted in Business, Coins, Deals and Steals, Rewards | 17 Comments »
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Nickel is talking up entrepreneurship to his oldest son, and has found a stash of coins that could be ripe for reselling on eBay. He asked his Twitter followers about starter investment books for kids because they were starting to get fairly sizable savings accounts. (I never addressed that question ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
Gresham's Law now has small business backing.
There's a fair bit of activity on eBay buying and selling 95% copper cents, and the coin sorters to distinguish them from the newer zinc variety. Why the interest, you might ask? It's the copper content of the cents that's interesting. These high-copper cents, ...
Posted in Cash, Coins, EBay, Economy | 2 Comments »