Started collecting at 12 in 1990 and my pre-internet collecting required change/roll searching, the small LCS in town and the yearly coin show at...
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Down to $18.22 right now.
Silver price drop today makes it more enticing - dropped to ~$18.30/toz
Ignorance and bullcrap (purposeful or unintentional) all around on this story.
Recent buy on vacation: 1879 Italy 5 Lire [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It’s about living in a high portion of the third largest metro int nation…and having several good shops within 15 mins of work.
Bought $57 dollars (current spot) worth of silver 1974 Bahamas proof set and the base metals coins were basically free.
Yep. The stores are consistent with the general market right. That’s why I prefer buying 1970 Panama 5 Balboas for essentially melt. These...
Yep. Especially when you look at the actual business strike mintage numbers for just most of the ASE years from like 2012-2020. Huge numbers...
Rhetorical question: Why is an ASE worth more on the market than a 1970 Panama 5 Balboa? Both have approx. the same amount of silver (ASW)....
whoa. Too bad he out lived Willard Scott. o_O
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Agreed. Likely a symptom of the lowball market hype and less about the origin as the opposite of the scarcity of MS67-69 true conditional...
PMD. Likely a 'dryer coin'. Got stuck in a clothes dryer and was 'beaten' into having a wider/deeper 'rim'.
Here are two from the giant weekly flea market from a couple weeks ago. $40 each: [IMG] [IMG]
Nice grabs of crown(ish) sized coins. I always like a nice 19th century French 5 franc. That 1833 is one of the types I don't have yet.
True, but a loaf of bread was like $0.50, so...
If that's a good representation...phew...chills. Just getting to look through it would be fun enough.
I wanted to as I was changing my collecting focus(es).
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