My father's family founded Sandyville, Iowa. My mother's family founded a Quaker church on the outskirts of Ankeny before Des Moines was founded....
Sounds like we have chewed a lot of the same dirt sir. When I was younger I owned about half the town of Medora, Iowa (I owned 18 acres in the...
Steve Album, who has an auction coming up, always has them. Vauctions also has them some at time.
Fair enough. Every coin deserves a home, and maybe some day it will simply hit me and I will start to collect them. I actually have quite a few,...
So they use photos of authentic coins but mail you replicas? I went to their site and I cannot tell from those photos any fakes that stand out to me.
Yes, you have it. Its better than an average 64 but not what they judge a 65. Its your set man. Do what you like, though I have always been one...
Yeah, looks like most small towns in Iowa. I doubt they all live in "town" where you are looking. They are fairly broad in what they consider...
I love Persia, but have never gotten much into the Islamic stuff. I have about every Pre-Islamic ruler, plus tons of ancillary Eastern countries...
Most of the world coins I see are pretty common stuff.
Do you really think a grocery store only has collateral the value of the groceries, and the bank loans them 100% of that value? How this would...
The bank asks usually 30% collateral for business loans. Plus, the security would need to stay in place until repaid. How is the dealer supposed...
Good to know. Maybe my friend got the idea from him. He used to be an ancient coin dealer, but didn't make enough so stopped maybe 9 years ago. He...
But what if the gold is fake? What if the market tanks and he can only sell for $700k? Without other assets, no bank will lend $900k to buy that...
I agree. Coin shops in the era of the internet make their bread and butter buying, not selling locally. If customers cannot bring in inherited...
Bars are weird. To me, that is a $70K premium versus melt. I would think its on the high side. On things such as this, I would never add the...
Reminds me of an old movie with Jamie Lee Curtis "A Fish Called Wanda". Her brother was a baffoon, and when she called him a gorilla he said "Do...
Reminds me of my mom. She always saved all bicentennial coins. I do believe I have some in the safe of hers I got when she passed away.
Good data sir. I appreciate it. I was going out of my way to make the comparison as "fair" as possible simply to get the point across that even...
It hasn't been that in most states for quite a while. I was in the transition period in the mid 1980's in Iowa. People a couple of years older...
This. Its all about the dealer's free cash at the moment, his arrangements he has made, collateral he can put up. I have financed a couple of...
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