I hit the antique shops again today. Picked up a 1986 Statue of Liberty silver dollar proof without any of the packaging except for the airtite...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2785479.ece Interesting article on a metal detector find.
Every now and then I visit a local antique shop that usually has a few silver dollars for sale. Normally there isn't anything interesting and I...
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2007/0004527296&EDATE= You might want to check your credit card if...
I was walking past the CoinStar machine at the supermarket and someone left behind a 25 cent coin from Aruba, a Euro cent, and a token from a...
So you are walking through a coin shop, and there are two common coins sitting there for exactly the same price. One is an NGC graded MS63 1921...
I bought a 1927 Palestine 2 Mils coin that I ran across in an antique shop. It's about the size of a US large cent. What caught my eye was the...
There is obviously a lot of merit and interest in collecting key date coins. There are even a lot of threads in CoinTalk referring to the keys in...
I can't seem to find a source for the proof gold American eagle coin mintage numbers for 2000 through 2005 [1, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/10th ounce coins]....
I was looking at a few circulated Barber halves in Numistrust Corporation holders. They appeared to be graded properly, but some looked cleaned....
I noticed that over the weekend, Scott Travers was on the news. He is putting several rare coins into circulation in New York City by spending...
Why are many of the modern commemorative gold coins from the US Mint selling for less than regular bullion coins on a per ounce basis? This seems...
I have the opportunity to buy a batch of circulated morgan silver dollars at a very low price. The catch is that they have been cleaned, look...
I know all of the objections to cleaning coins, and purchasing cleaned coins. But at some price, everything becomes a bargain. In your opinion...
I've noticed that common one ounce American Gold Eagles frequently sell for approximately the same price at many dealers as common date $20...
I see Canadian bank tokens for sale pretty regularly on Ebay from the 19th century, but I don't know how to find out much about them. What is the...
Has this ever happened to you? I saw a coin a few days ago on an internet dealer site. It was a beautiful coin for the grade. It was a grade...
I was just looking around and ran across the APMEX.com website. Has anyone ever used them? Were the experiences positive or negative? I don't...
This is something I've wanted to ask a group of knowledgeable collectors for some time. When I buy coins, I'm very very price conscious and will...
How likely is it that I would get a good coin if I bought one sight-unseen from an internet dealer? This sounds pretty risky, but there are a lot...
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