I recently purchased this 1942-P Mercury dime and after carefully placing it in a Quadrum capsule, I noticed that the reverse is rotated by a...
I think that's just toning which my poor photography skills made it look like carbon spots or other.
I'll be submitting a small batch of coins and one paper ticket to NGC and PMG. The only issue would be if any of these are problem coins. Please...
As a silver coin collector, I'm not really in the market to buy non-silver coins. However, I am a WWII buff and I found the 3 pennies from 3...
I don't think that "whole world" coins would ever be used, since it sounds redundant to insert the adjective "whole". I like how Krause's Standard...
They mean "unsearched" by the buyer, lol Reminds me of an eBay seller whose name ends with reat outhern oin, and begins with the letters G, S,...
IMHO, if the US Mint emulated the RCM: + No more 1 cent coins = good - Milk spots on silver coins = bad + More commemoratives = good - Too...
One pet peeve when purchasing coins on eBay: bid wars on coins that you were looking to buy, but the price surpassed your reservation price. (I...
Oh lol, it must be getting late for me.
It's all relative and I get what you're saying but I haven't encountered an issue with it yet. Even in conversation I think that "world coins"...
The more I collect coins, the more I notice things about certain aspects of coins that irk me. The earliest pet peeve I had are problem coins...
And there's philately for stamp collecting; philatelist - stamp collector.
Here's some info on your coin. eBay is a good place to gauge prices....
Reviving an old thread... did the Marshall Islands ever produce a WWII coin that commemorated the Gilbert & Marshall Islands campaign?...
I was referring to "world" coins - select limited edition Canadians come to mind. For example: I'm sure there are some folks who collect them,...
Yes, this is part of what I'm getting at - I wouldn't want to overpay because a few outliers skewed the price up. I always look for a deal when...
The ratio isn't perfect and isn't the end all be all, but may be one of many ways to look at what and how one should be buying a particular coin....
Yes, I agree lol. I should have phrased it much better at the onset. I was inundating myself with various questions out of curiosity, and wrote...
Not "relatively rare"... but as what I've called the formula, "relative rarity"... maybe I should call my ratio formula something else like...
Yes, that's where the confusion was - the naming of the formulation.
Separate names with a comma.
