Written by Bill O'Rourke on January 20th, 2010
Hi All,
Access to our website will be sporadic this weekend (January 22 thru 24, 2010; as we do some Website maintenance at Ask About Coins!
Please hold all questions until Monday, January 25, 2010.
We will be back as soon as the maintenance is completed! Once we are back online, we will be working to add a few more Fun Features to the site!
Have Fun,
Bill
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Written by Bill O'Rourke on November 14th, 2009
Will the year 2012 be our last year, here on Earth? Will a 2012 D, Denver Mint cent similar to this one be the last cent we see circulating in the Unitied States of America?
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Tags: 2009, 2012, 2012 D, asteroid, december 21, doomsday, end of earth, end of world, end times, Long Count calendar, Maya, Mayan, Mayan calendar, Nostradamus
Written by Bill O'Rourke on October 27th, 2009
The prices of precious metals are fluctuating wildly! Day by Day, the value of your silver coins can dramatically change! Now you can use the handy chart provided here, to see what each of your Modern Silver coins is worth based upon the spot price of silver!
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Tags: bullion, bullion values, precious metals, silver, spot price, value chart
Written by Bill O'Rourke on September 12th, 2009
Being written and illustrated by Bill O’Rourke, the author of the “Found In Rolls” column, as seen in CoinWorld Magazine, “The Roll Searchers’ Handbook” is still in the works!
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Tags: bill o'rourke, Die Varieties, error coins, new book, The Roll Searchers' Handbook, variety
Written by Bill O'Rourke on August 1st, 2009
The recent rash of counterfeit coins reaching the United States from the Orient has prompted a few questions about the “Hobby Protection Act” here in the United States of America. I thought that it might be a good idea to add the text of the “Hobby Protection Act” as an article.
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Tags: counterfeit, counterfeit coins, hobby protection act
Written by Bill O'Rourke on August 1st, 2009
There are huge operations in China that do nothing but produce counterfeit coins. These are not just the usual, “run of the mill” fakes that have been made for years. Some of these are good enough to fool the experts.
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Tags: chinese counterfeit coins, chinese counterfeits, counterfeit, counterfeit coin, counterfeit coins, fake coins, hobby ptotection act, phony coins
Written by Bill O'Rourke on August 1st, 2009
I was recently asked several very interesting questions that pertain to a type of error known as a “Lamination Error” so I thought that I would share them with you! I will also share my answers!
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Written by Bill O'Rourke on June 20th, 2009
I have been busy putting together my “Guide to Successful Roll Searching”. Many people have asked me questions about how I go about finding all kinds of rare and interesting coins in rolls that I obtain at local banks.
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Tags: 1972 DDO, coin rolls, die variety, doubled die, errors, Found in Rolls, Guide to successful roll searching, rolls of coins, varieties
Written by Bill O'Rourke on May 1st, 2009
These are my thoughts as they pertain to the extreme wear that we see on older Lincoln Wheat Ears type cents. The amount of wear on later dated Wheat Ears Cents will be discussed along with the lessening of visible wear as seen on cents from the 1930s onward. I will also discuss why I think that Lincoln Memorial Reverse type cents minted from 1959 to 2008 are not often encountered in conditions as worn out as some of the earlier Wheat Ears cents. The images should help to support my explanations as to what I think some of the possibilities might be.
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Tags: 1909 vdb cent, bill o'rourke, wheat cents, Wheat Ears Pennies
Written by Bill O'Rourke on April 26th, 2009
While searching through rolls of cents obtained at his local bank, collector Richard J. Ziegler of Quincy, Massachusetts discovered what may be one of the most exciting Lincoln cent die varieties to emerge in recent times.
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Tags: 1982 DDR, 1983 DDR, doubled die, penny