I shot a Spanish Trail tonight for a client and thought of this thread. Early in my collecting career, I had not liked that commem, but over the...
Superb coins can cost real money. Some of the best pieces that I have kept in my own collection were purchased at premiums that would have made...
One of the great chasms in understanding the market from a dealer vs. collector perspective is that all these auction venues are looked at as...
This is a cool idea for a thread. The large empty field around Ms. Liberty, in the NS design, has always appeared quite cool to me. The Canadian...
It's not just with an iPhone, but with any digital camera that has GPS enabled and embedded in the image data.
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Toning would start essentially immediately at the atomic level, but for one to notice a change it would depend upon the environmental conditions....
A good idea would simply be to look at classic AU/MS type coins that are blast white even though they are 150-or so years old. Check ebay to see...
The "why" might be because so many folks bought this issue heavily using their credit cards with the intent to flip for quick profit, but the...
Oddly enough, there is a bit of grumbling on the bourse floor at most major shows about how many coins are for sale within the auctions associated...
I'd imagine it has to be a PF69UC or PF70UC.
Queen Isabella of Spain was featured on the 1893 Columbian quarter while Ellinor and Virginia Dare were on the Roanoke half dollar, but these were...
I think there was a misunderstanding in our posts; I was not offering you my catalogs. Instead, I was telling you what the 2007 editions...
Howdy and welcome. You may want to order a complete set of the Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins set. My set is from 2007 or so and it is...
I think I recall that thread from perhaps four or five years ago and it might have been based in FL. However, the thread was so convoluted that I...
It's a privately minted round, but I don't have any other information aside from that.
I am a full-time dealer (read: I do this for a living) and I would like to address both the points brought up in the initial post, but also points...
I haven't gone through all the posts, but I have a feeling that LostDutchman (Matt) is the runaway winner here. Below is what is likely my most...
In general, the PCGS slabs allow more light to hit the surface of the coin, which can be important with smaller coins.
I own both the Tompkins and Peterson, et al, books and both are wonderful.
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