Well here is a 4 year old article about it.... http://coins.about.com/b/2008/03/12/coin-dealer-ethics-melting-coins-for-profit.htm
I'll defer to Lost Dutchman on that one. I'm quite sure he will agree that non-numismatists prefer the .999 stuff. I'm confident that the lowball...
Pink quarters and dimes and Halves ? We probably would have lost the war if we had pink coins ! ....oh wait !
Laws are made to be broken, esp. idiotic ones ! Gold and Silver coins have been melted for centuies. How many BU Morgans did the gov't melt ?...
$200 sounds very low for that time.
it's those damn Chinese counterfeiters at it again !
waste of time, IMO !
I'm fairly confident in guessing that an 1877 cent has not quintupled in price in the last 30 years , I'm not sure that I'd happy with a 400%...
A quick glance at the Dow jones , and it looks like that went up 15X or so in that time. I'd guess that if you took 10k ( or whatever amount to...
Well define very well ? I graduated HS in 1982. No ebay back then. I don't have historical stuff in front of me to make solid comparisons, but...
The problem is that once bought it is hard to sell for what you paid for it, esp. with a B&M dealer. If they buy stuff at 70 and sell at 100, you...
Well the stash was turned sucessfully into cash, and then split. It's not too hard to structure deposits so as to avoid taxes. You could easily...
Popularity of a series by date collectors is a huge factor. A 1909 s-VDB is easy to acquire in high grade ( like Ms-65) but has high demand as...
Value and rarity often make little sense. I consider the 13 V-nickel to be a somewhat bogus coin along with 33 double eagle and 04 dollar. Back in...
I don't see anything on that 56-d cent. I like varieties you can actually see like a 1955 DD cent or a 42/41 dime.
How would one of these top graders do if they went around to coin shops and shows as a buyer cherrypicking raw coins. Shouldn't they be able to...
My bad on the dime, but the Barber quarter and Half are awfully close. I'd bet most dealers couldn't tell them apart if you gave them say 8X 10 "...
I thought I made it clear that I was talking about looking at the obverse and not having any size reference. Good stuff on the SL type. The 20...
say you have a Barber ( or seated liberty,etc.) dime , quarter, and half....well the dime has a different reverse, of course. So you...
nice finds, but I disagree with $50 on the quarter, more like $6-8 ( IMO) it is a dug coin with ED.
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