My monitor is at factory default settings, but that is of little use to anyone else since monitor-to-monitor variability is enormous as is the...
There was a case a few years ago of a PCGS board member selling an unopened, First Strike designation eligible set of platinum bullion coins on...
If the color in-hand matches my monitor then it has been previously dipped.
No. Yes.
Actually, a nine-year old thread.;)
There was a slew of garbage spam posts here and this reads like it was part of that wave.
The first coin looks like a nice EF, the next two are awful.
The 1900 at the start of this thread has weird looking surfaces that make me think more than a simple dip was done to this AU dime. However, the...
It's certainly a nice list, but I would hope your kids would have an appreciation of coins, history and their values prior to receiving them or...
Thank you! Good shot for a selfie, too.
Though I have been involved in photography myself, off and on, since the late 1970s, I can't claim to have been clever enough to start this niche....
Heck, every time I get a Wheat cent I still chuck it back into a jar. I think they're cool.
Okay?
It's an estate auction likely run by a licensed company to sell used or new goods at auction. That's a dealer. You can try to hide behind...
If you sell a coin then you act as a dealer.
Nothing like lumping everyone in a certain profession together and then having a negative attitude about that group; you are a very kind and...
The caveat to what you wrote is that the seller, if they will not combine the charges for shipping, has no leg to stand on if they don't ship the...
I would imagine that if the seller does not offer to combine shipping then the seller will ship in multiple packages. If not, and if this is an...
I believe it is worth slightly less than its bullion content. The bullion content is currently $2.41, but these 40% halves are often bought and...
Is there a reason for limiting the discussion to the last 20-years? Why not 30-years or 100-years? Are commems included? Is gold included?
Separate names with a comma.