Plus pretty little things you can Scrooge McDuck if you want to. :) I just got in the mail tonight 3.2 ounces of proof platinum eagles from Harlan...
Yeah, its been a ride. We were pretty sleepy over here for a while after I joined, but one day a bunch of rowdy folks arrived like @Bing and we...
All small sized pm has hefty premiums. Think about it, it costs the same to make a die, check purity, strike a coin, if the coin is 1/20th an...
I agree with one point here, the original article simply cherry picked their starting date. This is VERY prevalent in financial literature. The...
Maybe another way of saying it is, "a reliable indicator for future transaction amounts are from those transactions between knowledgable buyers...
If, and it's a big if, they know how to interpret price guides. To me, common stuff always overpriced, really rare underpriced, and middle of the...
I am just wondering, why? If the original coin being copied had clashes on it, wouldn't they copy? If they were new dies the counterfeiters made,...
I view the US collecting world much more dependent on price guides, and more of a commoditized market, than all other collecting. However, one...
Wish I could attend this year. My is 5 months pregnant, so not much up for a road trip along with 6 and 8 year old boys.
Mostly my whole collection OP, along with a couple of other "weirdos" around here. Sogdian coins struck when they controlled the Northern Silk...
....that's what she said! I always loved the episode Jim goaded Michael into getting into trouble with that. "Gee, you always left me satisfied..."
Extremely easy to say its a cast replica. 10 million of these exist for maybe 50 real ones. one of the most faked coins in US history. Proof is...
I know the history of him, and agree the dime would be most fitting for him, but personally disagree about him being great. Especially as a...
Yeah, been busy. I have been buying, just some more odd stuff for me. I think I have bought 10 colonial notes, (6 of them printed by B Franklin),...
Barry, are you referring to the OPs or Panzerman's? OP, I do not see anything on the surface making me believe your is a fake. I am with Doug, I...
Yeah, same thoughts hit me for all areas I collect sometimes. I got into colonial paper recently, and sometimes wonder why the heck I am spending...
In dollar terms, of near bullion value coins, I would say I am around 50-20-30 AU-AR-PT. I just bought about 5 ounces of PT proof eagles recently....
I think we all kind of collect "sets". It is just how you do it. I left US coins because they allow others to tell us what constitute a "set". I...
If I am going to a show to buy a specific coin, I don't go to a show. Too much hassle for that which I can do online. I go to a show to see what...
Next year could be very difficult to predict. I have never seen such an unpredictable situation. If either party wins, what will happen? Even if...
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