John, I wish you all the best. Happy to do a review of it when it's ready. I do have a collection of counterfeit which ranges from contemporary...
I hate to imagine the day when I have child(ren) and when it comes to the time they want to do something with the collection - the last thing to...
I wish! My pockets aren't as deep as you imagine. Ok it seems the position of the mintmark is different for the silver proof coin. I had a...
I think everything has already been mentioned. Singapore silver coins are actually quite underrated and more so for gold and platinum coins. In...
Don't you hate the level of counterfeits these days? I can see why many would be fooled in getting one of such.
I had a rather rude slap in the face moment from a ebay buyer, claiming that the coins that I am selling are way too overpriced. I wasn't too sure...
This is an interesting question. As far as I understand, chopmark is just a method to test if the coin is struck in "good" silver and not plated...
1979 20 kopek unfortunately is a common date. I suspect your 15 kopek is also dated 1978 or 1979. In general, a lot of the higher denomination...
With all honesty - if I didn't read the year on the coin, I thought it was struck within the last decade. WOW.
This might be a good page to start off with: http://hkmal.blogspot.com/2011/02/283-china-yunnan-republic-50-cents-1920.html To my knowledge,...
It's from Yunnan Province. Most 3.6 mace coins are rather uncommon to scarce. The only exception is Yunnan 3.6 mace which happened to be very...
Sometimes a DSLR can be more trouble than its worth if you aren't used to it. You can get a DSLR camera and then you may have to look at micro...
I've posted this a couple of years ago of a list of world mints, national banks and banknote printing press. The original list already had a lot...
200 dollars seem like a steal! It's getting rarer to see them in a set these days. A bit of a shame to see it broken apart. In particular two...
There's just too many factors to the prices of gold. You can start from the global economy, the strength of USD, mine production, etc. If gold...
Evgeny - by any chance do you live in a humid area? It just sounds pretty odd. I own a fair amount of Russian coins including some modern silver...
A few years ago, a batch of error Malaysian coins appeared on the market. This could have only occurred if it was a mint sports - i.e. an employee...
I think you are missing the point. If a customer is paying good money to authenticate his / her coins and TPGs can't tell the difference, it's a...
Crazy times ahead of us. There definitely is a need to start spending some serious money on this to counter counterfeits. This needs to be a...
Overstrike coins are quite interesting and it's a really niche market. Somewhat underrated and not well studied. Even less is the history of them....
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