Can someone give me an example of a "Classic Commemorative" ? Are we talking about those collection sets I used to get as a kid in the 1970's...
Unfortunately, very true. Do you remember exactly WHEN this transformation happened ? It sort of relates to my post above.....should a...
Yup, and bag marks seem to be given a free pass. "Mint State" literally means mint condition, pristine....and maybe direct from the Mint (BEFORE...
Awesome, thanks !! I am scheduled to stay through Sunday (as of now) even though I suspect 3 days would be more than enough (maybe even 2 :D!)....
I liked it more for the 0.5 millimeter scale underneath.
Can that thing or the magnifier I linked be used to more easily detect folds, creases, wavy paper, etc ?
Thanks ! :D Yes, if you go back 10 years we had a nice recovery in both asset prices and PM prices. But it appears that many segments were still...
I would think that's the case...who would get a table at a conference if they aren't a dealer ? Those of us in the hobby are going to be walking...
Is it safe ? How would you use it and for what, besides just shining light through the bills ?
As with coins, sometimes having a good additional set of eyes helps with paper currency. I thought having some kind of micro-ruler or scale would...
True....but I'll bet some would still be off in-hand. And even though it's paper and a different grading scale, a PMG 45 Gold Certificate I...
I am not an expert. I respect the experts. We have some vets here who have been doing this for decades, like GDJMSP, who I respect immensely and...
A complete or even partically-complete set of Carson City MSDs would be worth a nice sum of $$$. Turned up missing ? o_O Hmmm.....:mad:
With the CAC bean because you can NEVER be 100% sure that it would have the qualities you assume most expert graders would agree on.
Sure, but decades ago it was THE index because you needed something that was easy to figure out/understand, simple to compute, and represented the...
Educate yourself from the web, books, CT, etc. But buying graded Morgans from a reputable dealer will eliminate virtually all of your worries....
Compared to the huge declines in 1989 and 1992, the weaknesses post-2010 are hardly visible on that long-term chart. They do show up on the...
It appears to be a super-large (3000 !) number of coins, pretty much the entire universe except maybe coins like a one-of-a-kind Draped Bust or a...
Gold has traded $1,150 to $1,500 the last 4 years or so....up 15% overall...yet the chart shows numismatic coin prices falling about 10% last 3...
Some coins have miniscule PM content and others have a good deal of PM content relative to total numismatic cost. Big difference in how they will...
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