Some 35 years after I began, I finally completed my Fuad/Farouk gold date set. In total, there are (16) coins in the set, including 1929 and 1930...
From Max Brand at the PCGS Members Show here in Las Vegas last week. Not rare, not expensive, but a pretty nice example for the issue. These are...
I'm getting closer to completing my Fuad/Farouk 16-coin gold set. Only need two more coins(!) This is the less common date of the two...
More Florentine numismatics...,,.. One of the fun things about collecting Italian States coinage, many are unknown in mint state. Or if there is...
Grand duke Francesco de' Medici. The collection at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was originally established by his generous donation....
The Star under bust variety. I had posted the same coin in MS63 a few years ago in this thread. Ditched it after upgrading. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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Pretty much describes most of the economic activity here on planet earth.
Maybe if it had the grade labeled in hexadecimal, it would have slid by the eBay censors. Both look like solid C.6 coins to me. I wonder what...
I too, like the Hexadecimal idea, where F.F would be the top grade. But if it became adopted, some innovator in Florida would surely then propose...
Can't say for certain, but I'm guessing this is the coin. Sold raw by NGSA back in December of 2008 in Switzerland. Nicest coin I've seen of the...
Completes the set! VERY tough date. Krause suggests the 1929 is more available than the 1932. Quite the opposite, they are both tough coins but...
Nice to know there are drugs to treat extreme greed and ego. No wait! He suffers from depression! FTX's Bankman-Fried needs depression, ADHD...
It's not rare, but I don't think I've ever seen one this nice. Included the original case of issue. Just a guess, but likely worth twice as much...
Can you post a scan of it? Russian material is quite strong recently, not as strong as the blow-off top in 2008, but much better than might be...
Yup, very high premiums. So high, I would think it would affect sales negatively in a significant way.
King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II were all first cousins. Just because a family quarrel led to 50 million deaths in the war...
Actually, it has been 27 years since they split, not 35. As tragic as the accident was, the divorce a few years earlier has had far more lasting...
I think it depends entirely on who the next monarch is. If through some stroke of fate it is Harry, then perhaps even the British themselves will...
It's already April yet the RCM is still striking gold bullion coins with the QE2 portrait. What are the chances of 2023 gold coins being struck...
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