Historical Significance is a big demand factor to me when I'm buying for my 'general' collection. If I am looking for a single or few coins to...
No words are more true. I guess market prospects for 2009 Lincoln cents are pretty good since they made enough that every collector can have a bag...
Maria Theresa was the mother of Marie Antonette the famous French Queen but not related to Victoria (a century later). There was a lot of...
I don't have an answer for this one but I have plenty of questions. US collectors can convince themselves to pay several times the regular...
Contemporary imitations are a slippery subject on any ancient series but the Alexander tetradrachms were the Maria Theresa Thaler of their day and...
This is a neat one and one I doubt I could have IDed. What I particularly like is the tapered obverse edges from the blank being cast in a...
That is a really good question. Italian craftsmen have been making fake ancient coins for centuries. One 16th century major player in...
http://www.coingallery.de/KarlV/Mailand_D.htm#0 From MMarotta's post above we should have followed the above link and then clicked on the word...
This is not my area of speciality and I do not own Price but I would really love to see a non barbarous Alexander tetradrachm with no mintmark...
Coin Investing via Coin Talk I found this post on "Coin Investing via Coin Talk" interesting and have nominated it accordingly for "CoinTalk...
My guess is wire brush cleaning but we used to throw around a term 'brick cleaned' which was a slam at archaeologists that would find a coin and...
Two posts above suggest their authors understand the difference between collecting and investing. It is sad that the question most often asked is...
Two points: These are not much harder to authenticate than US coins but it helps a lot to have the coin in hand rather than working from a...
This is going too far. A plain, unmarked disk would fool some people. Look at some of the fakes we have today that have fooled people. Have you...
My problem with this coin is a bit different. The vast majority if not all genuine Alexander silver coins bear some sort of mint mark, control...
The answer to this question requires an assumption on the rate of inflation. Fifty years ago we had the first memorial design cents. Fifteen of...
Great Britain 1 shilling, made from war booty I found this post on "Great Britain 1 shilling, made from war booty" interesting and have nominated...
Most collectors of ancients know well that age has nothing to do with price but a few still labor under the mistaken idea that rarity has more...
If you choose to use ancients, there are two good points to be made: Just being old does not make a coin valuable. There are many ancients that...
The question of cleaning is a 'big' thing among coin collectors and the answer depends on which coins you collect. For the most part, anything...
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