For my Chinese coins that fit in 2x2 envelopes, they go into a repurposed slide projector box. (Yes, actual slides!!!) [ATTACH] I have hundreds...
Thanks all for the kind words! :)
The styling on this one is wonderful. It is probably my favorite of the bunch. :)
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It is a base metal replica
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Looks fake
I use steel on crusty Chinese coins. Makes them look 2-4 times as nice.
And now for some honorable mentions: Merovingian denier struck in Metz in the 8th Century. This was about the same time that the monks of the...
I think only one of us has bothered to put one together so far this year, so I will open the flood gates. I bought a lot of really nice, historic...
But for grungy coins which us mortals can only afford, we like fondling them. :)
With money getting tighter as I near graduation (December 2019), I probably won’t be buying much next year. Maybe the occasional $10-50 coin, but...
I like US coins. I hate the commoditization of the market and how there is no consistency in the finer points in grading. The healthiest thing for...
Finish getting rid of all of my US coins and avoid buying them like the plague.
Nice. I’m in the second group, though I am more of a cos(2πt)-0.005t kind of guy. But still, which standard should I be comparing coins to in...
A question I asked in another thread but was never answered was this: “So coins are graded by PCGS or NGC, and they are set to an instantaneous...
Here is a screenshot from their website. [ATTACH] Apparently they can’t, so JA saw an opportunity and founded CAC. The premiums for...
Here is my Si Zhu. It is from the same “Dynasty”, but is a completely different type. It took the more conventional design of a Wu Zhu with a...
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