@EyeAppealingCoins is the winner. I paid $56 at auction.
During my first visit to Russia, on a study abroad program in 1993, the ruble was trading at around 1000 per dollar. However, the pay phones only...
AU53
Any more guesses?
I love the sestertius. I’ve only recently started dabbling in ancients and one thing I struggle with is that so many of them have rough, grungy...
Here’s an impulse buy I made last night on eBay. PCGS guide has this common date at $85 in AU50 which is higher than typical examples have been...
For the previous example, the MS67 SLQ, I assumed that the high grade had superior eye appeal already built into the price. That’s probably why...
Any more guesses before I do the reveal?
Making a detour to the dark side with this PCGS 64 example of the first ruble of the USSR. 64’s are averaging around $150 on eBay. [ATTACH]
As a collector of slabbed US type coins, I’ve started to branch out a bit into ancients while sticking to my comfort zone of NGC slabs on Heritage...
1325
225
$260
I paid $178.38 so @ddddd was the winner. My photos left something to be desired and the coin looks a bit better in hand, with very smooth...
Does anyone have any more guesses? I’ll do the reveal in a couple hours.
Here’s one of my more successful eBay pickups. It’s what an AU58 was meant to be. PCGS guide has it at $200. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
$125
Buy 225, sell 300.
93
$750. The obverse shouldn’t matter. The reverse is much cleaner and is the only reason for buying an otherwise common coin.
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