Whether you are a novice or expert in coin collecting, you will always need a coin price guide. These coin guides have lots of very useful information as well as prices for your coins. A vast amount can be discovered through the coin price guide. When researching prices of coins you become a little confused at all the initials that describe the coins.

Here is a list of some of the descriptions. They go from low value to . . . → Read More: A Coin Price Guide is Useful If You Are Considering Selling Rare Coins]]> A Coin Price Guide is Useful If You Are Considering Selling Rare Coins

Whether you are a novice or expert in coin collecting, you will always need a coin price guide. These coin guides have lots of very useful information as well as prices for your coins. A vast amount can be discovered through the coin price guide. When researching prices of coins you become a little confused at all the initials that describe the coins.

Here is a list of some of the descriptions. They go from low value to high value:
Good, Very Good, Fine, Very Fine, Extra Fine, About Uncirculated, Mint State, Proof State, and Brilliant Uncirculated. The initials that go with these are G, VG, F, VF, EF, AU, MS, PS, and BU.

The higher up the scale you go, the more valuable the coin happens to be. Of course there is much more information you can find in the official coin pricing guides. Information such as articles about coins, photographs, what price the buyer will pay for a coin and the types of levels each grade has.

There are many price guides out there and some are better than others are.

The coin guides are only approximation of what the coins are selling for. You actually need to do some research online and offline to find exactly what your coins are going for. Coins prices are very important to you. It lets you know what you need to pay for coins and what you need to sell your coins for. It also lets you know what your collection is worth in the competitive coin collectors market.

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Answer by TaipingYour best bet is to see a coin dealer. You didn’t list the date of the Canadian set, or what type it was. . . . → Read More: Does anyone know how much an uncirculated set of canadian coins is worth?]]> Question by Granny B: Does anyone know how much an uncirculated set of canadian coins is worth?
I also would like to know the difference between a federal reserve note and a United States Note 2.00 bill. Also an uncirculated set of 1943 lead pennies from each mint. What are rolls of mercury dimes worth. Would appreciate any input. Also have silver dollars.

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Answer by Taiping
Your best bet is to see a coin dealer. You didn’t list the date of the Canadian set, or what type it was. The $ 2.00 U.S. notes from 1928-1963 was backed by the government and silver. Federal Reserve Notes are issued by the 12 Federal Reserve Districts and are back by our faith in the government. The 1943 cents are zinc coated steel. Many have been re-plated, so one must look for wear, if the lines in the wheat are gone or in bad shape, they were re-plated. They are not really that rare and I could not find a dealer price on them. Comon date and grade Mercury ( actually Winged Liberty Head) dimes are worth 7-8 times face. Older ones or rare dates are of course worth more. As for silver dollars, without dates and mint marks I can’t help you.

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To say that the ancient Romans were obsessed with bathing would not be a great exaggeration. At it’s heyday, around 100 AD, the city of Rome had over 30 public baths and a host of private establishments. Rome was extremely well watered, with eleven great aqueducts bringing a huge amount of water into the city – some estimates give a figure as high as 1000 liters per day per person (about four times as much water as a modern American would use). Water-borne sewage, in a . . . → Read More: Mosaics In Roman Baths]]> Mosaics In Roman Baths

To say that the ancient Romans were obsessed with bathing would not be a great exaggeration. At it’s heyday, around 100 AD, the city of Rome had over 30 public baths and a host of private establishments. Rome was extremely well watered, with eleven great aqueducts bringing a huge amount of water into the city – some estimates give a figure as high as 1000 liters per day per person (about four times as much water as a modern American would use). Water-borne sewage, in a vast network of sewers laid under the streets, kept the city clean and healthy. Much of this abundant water was allocated to the “thermae” or public bathing facilities.

A Roman public bath, in imperial times, was very impressive facility, in many respects a combination of a sports centre or gym and a country club – though the larger ones would have dwarfed most similar modern facilities.

Besides spacious halls for the swimming pools, there were suites of rooms, containing the equivalent of modern Turkish Baths (steam) and Scandinavian style Saunas (dry heat), Jacuzzis (warm pools), ice-cold plunge pools as well as exercise halls, massage rooms, toilet facilities, lounges and even public libraries. Extensive gardens surrounded the main structures and there were exercise yards for the athletically inclined.  

The prestigious public baths in Rome and in many of the other important cities were endowed personally by the reigning emperor and were a means of stressing his importance, status and power. A large portion of the water from the aqueducts was reserved for the baths and one aqueduct – the Aquis Alexandretta was built specifically for this purpose. What is interesting, is that the facilities were not confined to the use of the upper classes and were open to all free citizens of the empire, though there may have been a very nominal entrance fee of a couple of copper coins.

Public decorum was preserved and there were separate times set at the public baths for the bathing of women and men.

In order to embellish the massive halls, with their acres of concrete pavements and  many enclosed suites of hot and cold rooms, the medium of choice was always mosaics. Artists were commissioned to create works on a huge scale and on a variety of themes – though water-related themes, such as playing dolphins,  representations of waves and the depictions of water gods such as Neptune prevailed. Using mosaic motifs for floor and wall covering was both decorative and practical, for it not only added to the sense of luxury and elegance, but it also waterproofed and prorected the base concrete and made the surfaces easy to keep clean. An important consideration was that the use of brilliant white marble or other light coloured tesserae (mosaic blocks) for larger areas of background in the art work ensured that maximum use was made of reflected light to brighten up the rooms.

As an example of imperial splendor, the Baths of Caracalla at Rome remain the most impressive. They were built on a massive scale and, even in their ruined state, one can get a sense of the opulence and grandeur that they once represented. This was recognised by the Italian dictator Mussolini and since his time the great halls have been used as a most impressive  backdrop for  seasonal night time operatic productions.

Millions of baked clay bricks and tons of concrete were used in the building of the Baths and the original mosaic floors would easily have covered several football fields. Most of the floors were covered with repetitive geometric patterns of coloured tesserae, but there were also cheerful dichromatic works featuring dark figures of dolphins, charioteers, bulls and musicians, picked out skillfuly, against brilliant white marble backgrounds. The artists have managed to capture a great sense of movement and vivacity in their work, using just these two colors of tesserae.

One cannot but be amazed at the planning and care that went into setting out artwork on such a scale to cover these huge areas of floor – Where did they get all the mosaic artists and artisans, capable of maintaining the unity and spirit of these enormous pieces?

Not far to the east of Rome, where the Tiber meets the sea is the ancient city of Ostia. This  seaport was the entrepot of Rome and was a well laid out, compact port city of merchants, shipwrights, tavern keepers and prostitutes – an industrial / commercial city that had the responsibility of despatching food and produce to the mother city. It was primarily a functional trading town, but nevertheless,  possessed  great public facilities.

There was a fine amphitheatre, a forum and other public spaces, many splendid temples, water-borne toilets and, of course, well appointed public baths (thermae). The two preserved baths were lavish and spacious, with floor coverings of exquisite dichromatic mosaic art – much of it still in good condition. The baths took up a sizeable area of the central city and were obviously of great importance to the hard working populace, who would have been mainly middle class merchants and dockyard workers.  

In England an ancient Roman villa has been lovingly restored at Chedworth, near the town of Cirencester. There were two luxurious bathing suites attached to the buildings of this extensive homestead. Each of the bath houses had several beautiful mosaic floors, featuring geometric patterns and borders, but also displaying motifs such as figures, birds and flowers. A number of these bright floors were set up on stubby hippocaust columns and hot air was drafted through the space underneath, to provide central heating to chase away the winter chill. The floor mosaics themselves were set out with a small palette of whites, greys, yellows and browns, all cut from local stones.

However the prominant terracotta red tesserae were re-cycled ceramics, from baked roof tiles. The villa was in a remote area, a great distance from the heart of the empire, and it is not plausible that the necessary artistic skills and mosaic techniques would have been found locally, in order to produce such impressive work. The owner’s of the farm must have been wealthy enough to have imported the services of migrant professional mosaic workers, presumably working under contract, to embellish their home. Incidentally it was the mosaics themselves that led to the re-discovery of the villa, which had become buried in time, following its abandonment in the fourth century. Burrowing rabbits had unearthed loose mosaic pieces (tesserae) and these colourful blocks were noticed by some woodsmen on a hunting expedition, who then informed the local squire.

We can still see many of these wonderful mosaics of the Roman world looking as bright and cheerful, as the day they were first laid out. A 2000 year testimony to the durability of this versatile medium. For some photographs of mosaics in Roman baths, you can visit the site http://how-to-make-mosaics.com.

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Answer by Dr. MI’d honestly go for the proof – and if I’m gonna buy them proof, I’d only buy them if they are certified by PCGS or NGS or I’d buy them from the u.s. mint.

The problem . . . → Read More: Bu and Proof Coins Question?]]> Question by BBooty: Bu and Proof Coins Question?
Do you think it it’s better to buy a full set of state quarters or to use the same money to buy a couple of proof stae quarters. Even though you are getting a few proof coins, is that better than just getting all BU quarters.

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Answer by Dr. M
I’d honestly go for the proof – and if I’m gonna buy them proof, I’d only buy them if they are certified by PCGS or NGS or I’d buy them from the u.s. mint.

The problem with state quarters is – so many people are collecting them, as far as value goes, they won’t be worth all that much anytime soon, but if you have a COMPLETE set in a hundred years or so they might be worth more.

If you’re looking for value, I’d get something someone doesn’t think to collect, very often this affects the value of a coin. There are some old silver dollars from Carson City that were pulled out of a bank vault and they are in pristine condition from the late 1800s, but certain silver dollars from the early 1900′s in fairly good condition are worth even more because nobody was saving them and they are harder to find. (I don’t remember particularly which ones)

I’ve bought all the state quarters, but mine are pure silver and in proof condition from the mint.

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this is a math question and i have no idea how to solve this. our class is on the systems of linear equations or something like that its something about substitution i have no clue but i am in the 8th . . . → Read More: Eric has 130 coins consisting of nickelss and quarters The coins combined value comes to 15.90 Find out how ma?]]> Question by $ lessons in love$ : Eric has 130 coins consisting of nickelss and quarters The coins combined value comes to 15.90 Find out how ma?
eric has 130 coins consisting of nickels and quarters. the coins combined value comes to 15.90. find out how many of each coin eric has.

this is a math question and i have no idea how to solve this. our class is on the systems of linear equations or something like that its something about substitution i have no clue but i am in the 8th grade that should help. please help me lol

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Answer by joshw2011
n+q=130 The number of nickels (n) plus the number of quarters (q) is 130.
5n+25q=1590 5 cents for each nickel plus 25 cents for each quarter is 1590 cents, or $ 15.90.

n=130-q
Substitute.
5(130-q)+25q=1590
650-5q+25q=1590
20q=940
q=47

n=130-q
n=130-47
n=83

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Answer by bbooptoon1959depends if the penny is a small date or large date. if it is a small date its about $ 40, . . . → Read More: Can anyone tell me How Much a 1970 US Coin Proof Set is worth?]]> Question by Gary: Can anyone tell me How Much a 1970 US Coin Proof Set is worth?
I have a 1970 US Mint Proof Coin Set. Five coins are enclosed in a clear case(Kennedy .50, .25, .10, .05 and a .01). Does anyone know how much it is worth? Please cite your reference. Any free sites to check? Please advise. Thanks.

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Answer by bbooptoon1959
depends if the penny is a small date or large date. if it is a small date its about $ 40, while the large date is around $ 10

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Answer by avipLet q represent the number of quarters; and n represent the number of nickels. q + n = 12 ———(1) q = 2 ( n) ———-(2) just by hit . . . → Read More: Ivan collects antique quarters and nickels. He has a total of 12 coins.?]]> Question by : Ivan collects antique quarters and nickels. He has a total of 12 coins.?
Ivan collects antique quarters and nickels. He has a total of 12 coins. The number of quarters is twice the number of nickels. Which system of linear equations represents the problem? Let q represent the number of quarters and n represent the number of nickels.

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Answer by avip
Let q represent the number of quarters; and n represent the number of nickels.
q + n = 12 ———(1)
q = 2 ( n) ———-(2)
just by hit and trial, you can say answer is 4 , 8

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