Great feedback to all, thank you. I was just shocked circulated IHC were flying off the shelves! Crazy. Thankfully I literally have piles of...
Talked to my local coin dealer, (real dealer, sells nationwide through ads in various coin papers). It was really weird. He said EVERYONE is...
There is no deal breaker on any coin per se. I bet tons of people would buy a G, corroded, offcenter lifetime JC. We have to remember these things...
Dude, we have all been stuck with duds. If you get upset with this, you will have a rough time in this hobby. Do the best you can, hold sellers...
Yeah, I learned long ago never to hang your hat on "crud' as an authenticator. Many different sellers can apply "crud" effectively. Honestly, look...
It's a good read. I stumbled across my copy 8 years ago at a book swap meet. Hard to put down.
Yeah, I passed the "I don't really have more room to store it" stage a while ago. My dream would be silver spikes but PT and gold stay they same,...
You will be looking for Judea bronzes and Shekels of Tyre, possibly a denarius of Augustus or Tiberius. One denarii of Tiberius is dubbed the...
I was speaking more of source country museums. I have heard many, many stories of coins disappearing or rotting in those institutions.
The bureaucrats, (both inside government and universities), simply want all of the power and ability to make money. They care nothing for the...
I hear you Jim, but I am still in the camp of a variety is on the die, not deterioration of a die changing details. Now, if the mint took off a...
Eh, never try to stand between a hucksters and his mark, it can get ugly. Same thing happens with ancients. People selling common coins, hyping...
Nothing wrong with it if done by a experienced collector. I think it looks much nicer.
My son has a coin necklace, but not on a bezel. I found an Augustus in a lot with an ancient hole in it. It fit his necklace perfectly, so now...
Like I stated earlier, a very pretty example and you did a superb job selecting your coin sir.
The pillars look like they will be the most valuable. They were pretty widely available in the 70s and 80s, but are now much scarcer. They run...
Looks like a venetian ducat but am not a specialist. Looks chipped or clipped. If you do not know anything about is a TPG is not a bad idea to...
Yes and no sir. I disagree, and always have, with US coin collectors differentiating wear from all other damage. To me, missing detail is missing...
Fair point. I wasn't thinking about bullion, I was thinking about rare coins in my post. I imagine bullion is crazy, it always is in times like...
On group 3, the bashlik issue you can see is Sellwood 8.3. However, the coin in the bottom right in that group is also a bashlik issue. I cannot...
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