If you ever see such a hoard let me know sir. I will buying into it along with you. :)
I have panned as well sir. What you find panning might look like these flakes they sell, but would be hudreds or thousands of time thicker. Most...
I would say the only true "worst reason to buy a coin" is that you feel you have to. The mindset that someone else gets to dictate what you "must...
Palladium has me confused. I always thought palladium is basically a poor man's platinum, used for similar catalysts. Now, though, palladium is...
Very nice of you to hold the contest OP.
Looks like a Chinese silver sycee. It is how they used silver in China. Lots of fakes though, so it would have to be verified by someone...
The thing to keep in mind is: if there were REAL silver market manipulation, someone would call their bluff. There are lots of really smart...
Lol, yeah I love that one. The crummiest stones possible, ones that used to be by definition industrial diamonds, marketed as a "premium color"....
The OP post refers to them lowering the top seller discount, the same as raising fees, (took me a second to process this too :)).
Aren't marketing people just great? They will sell you a pile of dog poo and convince you they are giving you a mound of brown diamonds....
Bank of Italy. I think they changed it becausr of the fascists in Italy, (no google, I swear).
I was in the corporate tax dept of Norwest at the time. Norwest was 4 times larger than WF at the time and placed the offer for WF stock. They...
And then they were bought by Norwest Bank in 1998. :)
I believe many sellers have special provisions if they buy their own lots back. Basically its like a no sale and they have to pay some sort of...
We don't know his business. Maybe he has had a lot of luck selling this emperor lately. Maybe the dealer was just physically at the auction and...
Wish I would take my own advice more. I was going to bid on a dichalkon a couple of weeks ago, its better than my example, but assumed it would go...
You never know. I recall a story from a dealer where he placed "lowball bids", (some might recognize the phrase), on a large auction of French...
OP, I seriously doubt many of us can post a Gordian I or Gordian II coin. Very nice and RARE coin. Congratulations. :)
It is very true that US prices of world coins are usually lower than in the coins home countries. World coins in the US are a weird animal, I will...
Overall I still see strength in world and ancient coins. US coins have been overvalued for decades. For ancients, (not world but similar in many...
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