I know nothing about SEGs...who they are...who founded them...if they're legit or a scam.....if they are closer to one of the other TPGs in terms...
Plentiful numbers of bullion substitutes for Saints that sell for close to the price of gold. Just go low enough in grade (generally MS63 or...
BB21 is correct....Philadelphia is considered to be The Mint....the others are considered branch mints.
Assuming that the bidding was rapid at that point....and especially if the item was ending....then I think it had MOVED UP by the time you placed...
Jeffersons, eh ??? :D [IMG]
True...but better to check the HA or GC archives over the last year or so. Have these moved up in the last 2 years ? I know lower-graded LDBs have.
Red Book can't be accurate except by luck.....it's a snapshot at the time of publication....if gold moves up or down by 10-20% as it did in...
He quoted numismatic prices so I assume he wanted that. I have bought bullion gold from Ebay and the prices were OK. They will sell you bullion...
You need to go by sales at HA and GC for the best comparisons.
You know, the price rose well before Covid...from about $1,200 to $1,600 or so. Then Covid took it another $400 or so. So from my perspective,...
My Red Book shows MCMVII HR's at $750 - $1,000 and Mint State commons at about $125-$150.
I suspect those are very low quality. Still better than nothing, for sure.
Apparently there were 147 Double Eagles in the collection; this Hendricks subset may or may not have included them all when it went up for sale...
Mini-hoards can just be 1 person's SDB stash. The Beverly Hills Bank Hoard which had a few coins from the Saint-Gaudens years of 1929-32 (I...
Good questions....the immediate FEAR is that if you even have 1 or 2 coins in a key date where the existing population is single digits, you could...
Historically, there were TONS of Double Eagles overseas -- savvy dealers had full-time people like Paul Wittle scouring Swiss, French, and other...
Well, unless counterfeits were in a European bank for decades, I guess they are OK. The only risk would be in the sellers overgrading it...
Very interesting: "...As recently as a few years ago, an EF45 1857-S double eagle was a $2,000 coin. Today, it is worth $1,500 and the coins...
Ok, here's what Winter wrote: "....this massive group—likely containing tens of thousands++ of coins—consists of eagles and double eagles dated...
I found lots of information -- mostly Doug Winter columns -- but nothing on the ORIGINS of the hoard itself. Virtually all of them talked about...
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