However, in almost all ultra serious times, they were only ultra serious THERE, not EVERYWHERE. PM has been extremely useful to get somewhere it...
I always like his "bat crud crazy" issues with Commodus as Hercules. I am pretty sure I own this one, but have maybe 5 silver and 4 coppers of the...
Unfortunately, some dealers nowadays try to grade like US grading. They make excuses like "worn die", underweight flan", "vf for type". These...
I respectfully disagree about grading. In ancients, the grade is what details are on the coin. The fact the reverse die was worn, the fact the...
Not a bad precaution. Ensuring things like door handles in public restrooms, (statistically the dirtiest part of a restroom), are disinfected...
Yeah, who the heck would ever pay over $35 an ounce for silver? Oh wait, TONS of people who came here predicting $100 an ounce. No one ever said...
This is the key. Another way to look at the hobby, (how I try to look at it), is "how much is the enjoyment you get worth?" If you buy coins...
My main collecting interests nowadays are ancients and bullion. So I haven't really seen declines. I still have my US coins from a few decades...
Looks like it was "pinch in" around a backing plate, possibly with a ring to hang it as a pendant. I have seen coins mounted that way from 100...
Yeah, but is it really the mint's fault? Who the heck can use government union workers and manufacture something for less than a cent nowadays,...
I wonder if it was a microscopically coated piece, with silver or PT, like a lot of the "cladless" state quarters.
Wow, that is a pretty deceptive fake. Its been a few decades since I collected these, but this one wouldn't have been flagged by me if I saw it on...
I do not see how you think it's a scratch on the die. Both pics show coins with incuse marks. For this to be on the die, it would have to raised....
Just a question, (forgive the ignorance). If it is unpublished, what links this coins to the Visigoths? Many other civilizations struck imitations...
This comic is exactly what I thought of when @Kentucky posted, so glad you posted it. I think we all get to that some days, hopping from place to...
It is toning. Remove it with a coin dip. I agree with @Suarez it is interaction with Sulphur, most likely paper but any paper source. Fresh silver...
The "world" to that manager might be running out of gold, but his "world" is probably means close to the surface, very rich deposits like they...
Interesting set. I bought some of them for the kids. Edit: No offense meant by this, they are pretty well done just not in my collecting interest.
I apologize if I derailed your fine thread sir. I have edited my previous post. I just get upset what is happening to this hobby from all of these...
I have had the same argument about genuineness of ancients in NGC slabs. I have literally waited for dealers to look it up at the NGC site that...
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