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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Remembering the Slide Rule

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This came up as a thread in the “Off-Topic Observatory” of the Cloudy Nights discussion board for amateur astronomers. People have all kinds...

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Mistakes Happen: VAM Varieties (U.S. Silver Dollars According to Van Allen and Mallis)

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This is why coin collectors want electron microscopes. You see, the Mint was forced to strike millions of these, just to consume silver. Th...

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Whitman’s Coin Collecting Quantum Crossover

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Question: What do you get when you cross a Red Book with a Whitman Folder? Answer: A Search and Save book dedicated to the new collector...

Monday, June 29, 2015

Meteorites

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You can own meteorites, the remaining pieces of the early solar system. They are swept up by the Earth in its orbit, and survive the long ...

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Coins and Stamps

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"Coin collecting" is properly called "numismatics"; and numismatics encompasses military orders and decorations, merchan...

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Philatelics: the objective virtues of stamp collecting

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“Those bright little pieces of paper will carry your words across oceans, over mountains, over deserts, and still more difficult: over sa...

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