After watching this thread go into the ditch, I have a word of advice for the OP-- I changed my mind -- It doesn't matter whether you buy rounds,...
Two things that I see over and over on fakes -- the rims are too wide, and the figures in the date are "wiry," too thin. Both apply to this coin,...
So put them on eBay, title: "Much-Loved Mercury Dimes" fresh from Scrooge McDuck's money pit." :woot:
Blaubart, the "weight" side of junk silver is pretty much unknown to me, as I buy using the formula "dollar cost per $1 face value," and don't...
Exactly right. Since 2010, I have NEVER bought junk silver (or my few ASE's) from a dealer. In this 1.5 million person metro area, there's...
$0.794 vs $0.715 ?
Here's a beginning. I didn't read very far, so not sure values are given for specific notes:...
For Canada silver, try a bullion dealer who will sell you a $50-100 face lot at a percentage over spot (in person, not by mail). Bullion dealers...
You're right, the reverse is a little different - my apologies.
Manchukuo, 1937, 1 chiao, Krause #Y-519. Books $2 in VG, $5 in fine. Manchukuo was a province of far northeast China captured by Japan in the...
Well, it's not rare; at this time, the Spanish silver mines in Mexico and Bolivia were cranking out untold tons of silver, using Indian slave...
They can also lock in silver prices using futures contracts, to know their costs almost exactly, a year at a time.
A diameter of 17.5 mm would appear to be a 1/2 real coin (additional denominations in this design are 1, 2, 4, and 8 reales). The mintmark is...
And the diameter in millimeters; four denominations (in 4 sizes) look like this.
If you deal with a large number of members of the general public, "targeted" promotion is your only option; anything else is expensive, wasteful,...
You can sort the listings by price, with and without shipping; that would save you a lot of time, plus you look at BIN's first, not auctions....
The Chinese will make up a very very shiny set of Indians for you -- a 1908 is 15c less than a 1908-S because they don't have to engrave an "S" on...
The entire dashboard policy and format has changed in the past two weeks or so; impossible to tell what the regulations are, for the time being....
I lost a coin 4 or 5 years ago. If you ever see a VG 1916 Barber Quarter with a prominent, well-tooled "A J O C A" straight-line counterstamp,...
I agree, "trading" with physical silver or with the SLV/GLD ETF shares -- dangerous. But there's an additional risk that apparently no one thinks...
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