Many of the fakes come from sources such as these. Of course, they are advertised as replicas but the buyers, in some cases, will try to resell...
Here's an article demonstrating how creative fakes are being made: http://www.coinnews.net/2009/10/27/pcgs-helps-police-nab-counterfeits-suspect/
I went through the same concerns and questions as you. I initially bought a few 1 oz bars, 10 oz bars, and 1 oz rounds. I then decided that 10 oz...
I don't know if such a tool would be useful because the bid prices are always changing on eBay. I have bought bullion (bars and rounds) a number...
You didn't offer a choice that said, "I collect a lot of other kinds of coins and adding ancients to the mix is simply too much time, money, and...
I'm currently reading "America's Money, America's Story" by Richard Doty which discusses the topic in a lot of detail, and contains lots of photos...
These coins from the Admiral Gardner wreck have an interesting story and are pretty common because there were so many of them found. I have one...
Congratulations!!!! I was considering entering the contest myself and never got around to it. It's great that a CTer won it. If you've never been...
Hey, I'm going to Washington, DC next week and know there are two places where you can buy U.S. Mint stuff, including Union Station. Does anyone...
Yes, it's fake but you can sell it on eBay for real.
It should be easy to put together a collection of obvious fakes and replicas but many fakes are getting harder to detect, so how are you going to...
When I last looked, there were 5300 current auctions on eBay for fake US coins and over 900 for fake world coins, including ancients. Most show...
Your photos are not good but it's a 8 reales minted in Mexico. It also has chopmarks which means it was used in Oriental trade. Sedwick...
Actually, Britannias are "britannia" silver (.958 fine) not "sterling" (.925 fine).
Very nice coins and nice price. Your post made me look up the coins in Krause and I found, to my surprise, that much of Panama's official...
That's OK for looking a specific coin, if you know all the required info about it, but there's nothing better than having a book when you are...
It is definitely a conspiracy. The price of gold and silver is manipulated to the benefit of the manipulators and the rest of us are simply...
Not much different from the new age "prospectors" who quit their jobs and pan for gold in mountain streams in the U.S. They are lucky if they make...
Good price on the 1975 gold. Congratulations. Strange that Franklin Mint was minting country coins in those years.
I don't know what the OP's original coin looked like, but it they are similar to the photos posted by Coinscoins, it appears to be the design of a...
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