Hope it was a good one! My 39th was a few weeks ago, and in the real sense, not the Jack Benny sense...though I prefer to call myself "21 with 18...
Birthday suit? Just buy one of these instead: [img]
Yup. If I insisted on paying even Greysheet bid for the coins in my type set, I'd either never obtain the really nice ones for the grade that I'm...
The unfortunate problem here is that even the most underinformed and uninitiated know they aren't going to "get rich quick" on $100 worth of...
True enough. The bottom line is not to pay more for "lots" like these than what the lot would be worth to you if it were all common stuff without...
Well, I don't have any examples of this, but I know someone who bought an "unsearched lot" of early Lincolns and found a 1924-D and a 1931-S....
Oh, sure -- there are collectors for everything, and that's a good thing. I'm just saying that most of the holed coin collectors I know tend...
My wife more or less tolerates it. Occasionally she shows a little interest when I show her a coin she thinks is particularly pretty, like the...
I know a handful of folks who collect holed coins. But to be honest, I don't know if they would collect holed Kennedys.
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Welcome to the club. :D
Collectors need to assess their reasons for collecting and the value they put on enjoying the lower-graded piece until they can "trade up."...
I'm at a loss to describe it. Can't tell too much from the bid history because it's private -- which is another reason for me to think something...
I have a "short list" of books I keep my eye out for. When I see them available at a reasonable price, I go after them. Most of them I have no...
My vote is for "probably." It has that cleaned look, and even if it wasn't cleaned, the fact that it looks cleaned would prevent me from being...
Glad I could help. :)
What I like about coin books is that it's so easy (and inexpensive) to live vicariously through other people's coins. :D
Not really. Then again, I didn't "rip" this one for F-12 money. :D
Nice coin! Here's my seated half I bought last month (1862, PCGS AU-58): [img]
ICG overgrades very high-grade moderns in my opinion, but other than that I think they're every bit as good as any other service.
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