Think of it this way-- if you rub a Fine-12 coin, and you produce a luster-like sheen on the surface, you are doing two things-- You are producing...
These are excellent points, and reasons why I, myself, usually prefer 90% silver coins. Also, the 90% coins are all at least 45 years old and...
I agree up to a point about the Gold Standard. But that's one of the attractions of gold as well-- it is relatively scarce, not to mention that it...
And not only that, it's a Great INVESTMENT! Great INVESTMENT!!! :goofer:
It might depend on how flattened the details are. Coins such as Walking Liberty halves and $10 Indians may show a little "rub" on the high points,...
I don't know if they're the world's dumbest crooks-- they may just be targeting the unsuspecting, or people with limited numismatic knowledge....
At first glance it does seem a little strange, doesn't it, since the ASE is designed to be a bullion coin, to be sold based on its silver value,...
In 1967, there was a law implemented to prohibit the melting of US silver coins in a vain attempt to keep them in circulation. But people were...
If you live in a major metropolitan/cosmopolitan area like NYC, then the more esoteric foreign gold might be "as liquid as bullion" coins. But it...
Here's a picture of your coin, and others from Transnistria, on the Internet: http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/circ_sets/Transnistria.html
If you got everything else (excluding the 1913, of course), including the two '83s and all of the other '80s and '90s in VG+ for only $35, then I...
Well, my company, and others as well, own or operate base metal (lead, copper, zinc) mines that are producing silver as a by-product. The silver...
Thank you for your clarification. :smile Interestingly enough, all Lincoln cents contain zinc to one extent or another. Most of the pre-62...
It is curiously reminiscent of a 1967 law that was passed to prohibit the melting of silver coins, a vain effort to promote President Johnson's...
The beauty of my job, working for a mining company, is that it allows me to get a little different perspective on things. :) I can't complain,...
"Raw unrefined silver" doesn't sound like "investment grade silver" to me.
Have you tried ANACS? They should be able to give you a "details" grade
I think a lot of those restrikes were made to get around a pesky American law back in the '60s that made it difficult if not impossible to import...
That's a tiny bit more than the gold contained in a US $1 gold coin or a Mexican 2 peso gold coin.
I don't think the government conducted any great silver melts, certainly not like with the gold coins. There was a coin shortage at the time...
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