There's "the normal premium", and then there's "the fractional premium", and then there's "the pawn shop premium". This is the same place that...
That Mercury dime I found in the CoinStar a week or two ago contained $3.35 worth of silver. This morning, it contains $3.90 worth of silver.
The pawn shop had put out a bunch of new gold coins today. 1/10oz AGEs at $650 each, an ex-jewelry 1861 quarter eagle at $850, a US Capitol $5 at...
I remember selling a couple of double eagles at ~$1400 each to lock in a few hundred bucks of profit. Not that long ago, either. Sigh.
Oh dear, you used the C-word. If you were on one of the gold-is-money sites, you'd be getting such a lecture right now...
If that's your perspective, then it seems like you're defining toning itself as "cleaning", because that's what physically changes the metal of...
From these single images, how can you distinguish high point wear from a less than full strike? In hand, where I can rotate the coin under light,...
...but short squeezes are inherently limited, meaning that if it's really a short squeeze making prices squirt this high, they're likely to fall...
The problem, of course, is that you can only identify peaks in hindsight. The peak here might be the $52.26 we saw earlier today, or it might be...
Ah, yes, "tuition". As long as you're not funding it with student loans. ;)
You can reliably make money, or at least not lose it, if you're searching rolls or change. But you'd better be getting enjoyment out of it as...
The article I read this morning was talking about some dealers putting silver on cargo flights to London, because the higher premiums there...
Ugh, all these familiar faces getting older. I don't know what I'd do if it started happening to me...
It's always worth doing a magnet check, but the last few fakes I've checked apparently were silver-plated copper rather than iron/steel. They get...
Even then, it wouldn't be very radioactive. Less than an old-school smoke detector. But they'd have a really hard time getting larger lots past...
Okay, at that weight, diameter, and thickness, I don't think this is likely to be gold-plated base metal. It would have to be noticeably thicker...
The Peace dollar looks like cartoon line art. We see those fairly frequently on eBay and the like. I think of them as "not even trying" fakes....
I missed the 4% discrepancy on the weight on my first read-through. Yeah, these coins would never have been that far out of tolerance when struck,...
No, it won't, in this context. Gold blocks X-rays too effectively. An XRF gun can only give a reading on the 10-15 microns of a high-gold alloy....
I'm guessing that gold dollars would be about the last target for tungsten-core fakes. There's just not that much room inside them to displace...
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