Not even a remotely good fake.
You’re looking at an old giveaway there. If you go to the Contests forum, you’ll see a more recent, active Quarter Notes giveaway. As of this...
A good question, and I wondered the same. I also have the same problems @Burton Strauss III mentioned. China is way outside my wheelhouse. The...
Here's the Krause-Mishler value, given on the NGC database. I'd put your coin on the low end of VF, or really more in the range of F. So the...
I’m a sucker for contrasting grey toning with that “antique patina” look, for which I coined the term “CircCam” (i.e., “circulation cameo”). I’m...
Shipping update. The prize coin for Round 3 has been shipped to @gabsar9115 today, 12/22/22. @gabsar9115 - do please let us know when you...
Coupla crusty circs... [IMG] [IMG]
Ya think? LOL :rolleyes: That, or the coin above was real, until they "eliminated the authenticity", and thereby made it fake. Which begs the...
Aha. The company profile page of the company that made that slab. Found this gem of web design. In the brown font hiding against that busy...
Seems the QM has had some rocks in the road. Here’s hoping 2023 will be better for him and for all of us. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Why cross it, if it already has the oh-so-trustworthy AU55 slab from TQJD, or TPQB, or whatever that is? ;)
You don't have to take pix if you don't want. I'm just glad to hear it arrived.
Those are long obsolete now. Circa 2006. Old email and phone number, both long since defunct. I only have a tiny handful of those left lying...
Now we come to... ROUND 4. The prize is a Roman antoninianus of the emperor Gallienus, struck between 260 and 268 AD. Interestingly, this is...
Probably on a par with my odds of winning a gold medal in an Olympic track event. (I'm a late-50s, morbidly obese smoker with bad knees.) Yeah....
The first two prizes (Aurelians both) are in the mailbox to go out tomorrow, 12/22/22. Round 1 (@SensibleSal66 Round 2 (@masterswimmer) Round...
Yep, solid buy at that price.
Resign, as quickly as possible, once everyone's check was refunded immediately.
Time for the drawing for Round 3, finally. Our lucky number was... 102! [ATTACH] And Post #102 was by @gabsar9115 ! Coingratulations,...
Status update: I got totally crushed in that auction (it was for a nice NGC AU Athenian Owl tetradrachm).
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