Coin Commentary

November 28, 2024: Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you to all of our loyal customers for allowing us to do this all day, every day, for 20+ years now, including on holidays (like this one, for example). Hey, it beats working.

Thank you to our dealer and industry friends and colleagues for making this an (almost) totally enjoyable activity throughout during which we have done lots of good business, had plenty of laughs, and shared a lot of excellent meals.

Thank you to the staff at The Helmand in Baltimore who continue to offer that unbelievably delicious cilantro sauce since we’ve never found that anywhere else.

Thank you to my buddy Brian at the local USPS branch who has gone above and beyond to help us out more times than I can count, many times during off hours, despite the fact that he has 800 million other things to do for a local customer base that frankly seems like a giant pain in the neck to deal with.

Thank you to our friends at CACG, PCGS and NGC who continue to put up with our special requests on weird items when I am pretty sure they’d rather be grading a vanilla box of Morgan Dollars.

Thank you to our graphics genius Eddie from 7Red3 who makes all of the cool images on this website.

Thank you to all the other dealers who buy a lot of coins from us, and offer us even more, since of course we always have to feed the machine.

Thank you to our friends at the ANA, FUN, NYINC, Whitman, CSNS, Great American, EAC, PCGS and EBW Promotions for working extremely hard to provide us with excellent shows and a plethora of numismatic social and commercial opportunities all over the country.

Thank you to PCGS for continuing to provide the chatroom, which to us is the defacto modern day coin club, where like minded people can talk about coins 24 hours per day and unlike-minded people can be snarky even more than that.

Thank you to Jim at our insurance company who has been extremely good to us during the good times (when the business runs like clockwork), and the not-so-good-times (when a couple of boxes have vamoosed in transit).

Thank you to the whole team at 3MediaWeb who have helped us develop and maintain a website that looks different than what everyone else in the industry is doing, that allows us to present our coins exactly the way we want, and has worked darn near flawlessly from the instant we launched it in April 2020.

Thank you to our friends at Heritage, Stack’s Bowers and GC who provide excellent service and help us sell a lot of cool stuff at auction for frankly way more than we ever imagined we could ask for it on the site.

Thank you to our former and now current photographer Kevin who has saved our bacon at a time when my shoulder prevents me from doing this myself.

Thank you to Dr. Alan Curtis who has now fixed my shoulders twice thus allowing me to eventually lift things higher than my own ear lobe.

And finally, thank you to little Billy, age 8, who drew the excellent hand turkey shown at the top of this article.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

John & MaryAnn