I still have some old Red Books that show a range of prices for "better date" silver Roosevelt dimes. I remember shelling out extra for the 1955...
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Tech makes for iffy examples. I mean, how many people had handheld supercomputers in the 1960s and 1970s? Zero. Now, it's a couple of billion...
And even then, it only goes into remission. It's never really cured.
I just can't seem to break my habit of buying things when the price gets dropped ("on sale"), rather than when the price has just been jacked up.
The ring, the finger, or the spouse?
Oh, I thought we were looking for photos of miserable Morgans...
I'm no Chinese coin expert, but I'm pretty sure that (a) that's not MS61, and (b) PCGS does a lot better job than that with the typography on...
The reason coin collectors don't like cleaning is that once a coin has been improperly cleaned once, it's damaged forever. Rubbing a coin leaves...
I think the odds are decreasing, just because we seem to be relaxing all the other rules around disposal of hazardous waste.
"AUM" is assets under management, "ETP" is exchange-traded product? Had to Google for those...
Yes, it does, doesn't it?
I don't think the modern (post-silver) S-mint business strikes are ever put directly into circulation, only sold to collectors. So I wouldn't...
If you could order fakes made of actual silver, then get refunds without returns because they're fakes -- that would be an economic model that...
It seems like you're confusing "the dollar" (our unit of currency) and "one particular dollar that I decided to pin all my losses to". If I'm...
Kinda wish I had some of the gold I bought near melt, then flipped for a profit when the price of gold jumped... to $1600, or $1900, or...
You buy stuff at the grocery store that totals $9.96. You pay $10, and get no change. What percentage have you lost?
Fine from here just now, too. Random public Wi-Fi in central NC, Chrome on an old Samsung phone.
Well, they did seem to take this stuff pretty seriously when coins were made of precious metal. And in modern times I guess they're still beholden...
I remember seeing this table previously, or ones like it. For numismatics, of course, we'd rather see it broken out by grades and types instead of...
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