I posted this elsewhere recently, but it also fits here. A 1 Yen Meiji Dragon with an incorrect slab - "M25 (1892)" should say "M29 (1896)." Oh...
Hm. I still want a nice Marcus Aurelius. Being a wannabe adherent of stoicism, he's the only real Stoic I know that graces a numismatic item. I do...
A good dealer would at least explain the price drop if you ask. If it was an inventory problem, the dealer should say "I already have too many of...
Yes, and add to that the difficulty of actually making a living in the coin business. As I've perused coin shows both physical and virtual over...
Anything that involves exchanging money inevitably has an an investment element to it. You may absolutely love the look, feel and presence of a...
Littleton's ingenious marketing pulled me in at least once back in my more impulsive days. I forget what the impulse offer was, perhaps an entire...
Shop around and see what lures you in. I bought my first ancient at a local coin shop - it had a wonderful portrait of Probus on it and I thought...
I see some other sites selling these for between $247 - $260. Ebay had one for $264. I think I bought mine a whole ago when gold was much lower,...
Wow! The first pure energy proof coin! What will those Canadians think of next?!
The heft definitely makes an impression. I always think "wow, these used to actually buy things! Had I lived back then, would I have really traded...
I use Libre Office, a free spreadsheet program that pretty much does what Excel does but for $0.
My parents bought my first coins when I still had only a single digit age, so I don't exactly remember the first one. A sewing machine shop in a...
Wow! I went to Aladdin's Castle when I was a mere tyke. I had forgotten about it and arcades in general. I used to have a few of those tokens, but...
I have never heard of them. Do they have a website? "Fleur de coin grading" in Google search doesn't seem to return an obvious site. Or even any...
I love and hate both slabs and raws. Slabs at least give some measure of assurance that you're buying the real thing, but, as already said, fake...
Germs are everywhere. As said above, you're more likely to get contaminated from the cell phone you put in your face multiple times a day than the...
Ummm... mine is... ummm... a happy splashing fish wearing tightie whities. It comes from one of the drawings on the site that I'm either on break...
One can only fathom the situation under which someone carved that coin. Yikes.
Yes, that's true, but the losses from the cent and the nickel are more than made up for by the profits from the dime, quarter and other releases....
Maybe, no one really knows, but I think such a situation would instead drive a move to electronic means of money rather than more coins.
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