I would agree you bring both great knowledge as well as humor, I simply believe women have a different perspective on average than men. Some of...
This hobby has always been older white male dominated. I went to a coin show in the 1970's and it was mainly old white males. What does this tell...
I got just DESTROYED in today's auction, so no newp's for me.... :(
I agree. I wrote a thread about it about a year ago, how writers were "laying the groundwork" by postulating the grade. Who knows if this was done...
Lol. You have about the same "negative midas touch" as I have sir. If I knew for sure where to invest I would do so. Since I don't, I simply...
I would mainly agree sir. However, I would point out that the reason coins were dipped white was to prove there was no damage under the toning. I...
It is now, but when toned coins first started bringing good prices it was because collectors were appreciating the original, undipped surfaces...
What is sad to me, and I have said it all along since toning became popular, is how many perfectly nice coins are ruined to create fake toning....
I agree the buyer got a good deal, but I disagree with the original buyer "lost". How much enjoyment did the original owner gain from owning them?...
The term comes from bags of Morgan dollars. When coins are in a bag, during movement they tend to hit each other and make little dings on the...
I find a lot of new collectors, when seeing 1960's coins, believe the coin is unusual. In the 1960's the mint actually struck coins with relief,...
I was just at a local coin show Sunday and a couple of dealers had junk halves for 13.8x. One had probably 1000 halves in his pile for sale, WL,...
I agree. The second coin especially looks a little "baggy", but could be the slab. To me, any slab is simply an opinion of grade, one which I may...
Could it happen naturally? Yeah, but it would be exceedingly rare. I would be a lot more comfortable with it if there were a touch of progression,...
I treat it like the old adage, "never clean a coin". Sure its tiresome for experienced collectors, but has been indispensible advice to tons of...
Anyone who drinks the koolaid of giving undue weight to the grade on the holder is the one who is going to end up with a pile of overgraded coins....
St Gaudens = Beautiful coin, a work of art especially in UHR. Kennedy = Pedestrian example of boring subject matter combined with lackluster coin...
I own quite a few AU bust half dimes, and that coin is an XF. Its not AU in my book in any way. Maybe VF35 was a touch harsh, (I don't know if it...
Honestly, I do not think I was ever in the situation to decide. I have always only used money that I didn't "need" for my hobby. Therefor, I was...
I have the set and some "extras". They made some interesting gold coins in the 50's not listed as coins. For some reason they are in the back of...
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