I should probably do that. I miss getting half-dollars and dollar coins with my monthly deposits. I used a small community bank for years because they would get them for me and not treat me like I was a bother to them (and I had what amounted to a burner bank account with a different bank so I had a place to dump the excess I couldn’t pass out in change to my customers). But then that bank was merged with another (and then another) and both of them refused to order the coins anymore in order to “keep inventory low”

Banks, places which I naively believed had money in them, don’t actually want to have to have money in them!

That Stella either a poor image or fake…..weak central strike, porous surface? One of my favorite coins, should, definitely been made for 1776-2026, but be happy we get Sts., Walkers, SLQs imagine no don’t imagination goes to die @USM

P’s usually bad, fuguly, dirty coins v. D

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1990 sounds about right timing wise for the substantial updated transition of the TCP/IP protocol. If it weren’t for Al Gore releasing his www Patent, which then allowed researchers to take it to the highest levels known to mankind at the time, who knows where we would be today? The dawn of the widespread implementation & commercialization of the one and only http://WWW...
Great stuff! Thanks for the reminder E1!

My non-mint gold is purchased through my local coin shop whose Owners are PNG members and will guarantee repurchase at minimum spot plus the going premium. They test EVERYTHING they sell!

https://www.pcgs.com/news/counterfeit-pcgs-holders

NGC Has some information listed at: “NGC Security Center”.(put into a search engine) Surely there is additional information and these were found, running a search of: “gold coins in counterfeit holders PCGS NGC”

PS This is my2nd attempt. I removed a previous link to the titled NGC site.

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(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)

“The First Internet”

The ARPANET network originated as a U.S. Department of Defense communications project that began transmission in 1969 at the University of California in Los Angles (UCLA). This project was intended to establish computerized hypertext messaging between military scientists performing government research at leading universities throughout the continental United States. 

The ARPANET’s expansion flourished in the 1970’s and later included most major universities throughout the continental US by the 1980’s. The ARPANET later became the accepted standard for all US Military networks. Overtime, the APRANET standard was privatized, along with the first version of the Transmission Control Protocol /Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Finally, in 1990, the ARPANET was decommissioned and replaced by the NSFNET, which included a newer version of the TCP/IP protocol. The NSFNET was later replaced in 1995 by today’s Commercial Internet.

Today, the internet is widely used by coin enthusiasts that enjoy exchanging data and information between leading experts located throughout the country. This is very much like the early scientists that shared information between most of the major universities back in the day. For me, I am so glad to see that the internet is still being used as it was originally intended.

Cheers