Right, but assuming that "market cost" = "What people are willing to pay". Then where is the premium originating? Is the Mint selling to bulk...
Honestly, I prefer the coins in slabs and have no real desire to physically touch them. Even if 3rd party grading were not a thing, I'd still have...
Ya, I saw the Chersonesos thread, pretty scary. I'd always assumed that some fakes were probably slabbed, as nobody is perfect. Also, methods for...
I looked through the pictures in sequence, my reactions can be summed up as: 1- Wow! 2- Holy Moly! 3- What? 4- Ohhhhh That's why I buy slabbed...
I've only recently gotten interested in bullion and do not have much experience buying/selling, so my assumption might be born of ignorance. But,...
I wish that Ebay was this proactive with ancient coins. There are piles of "coins" listed out of Eastern Europe and Northern Africa that were...
Ya, a lot of these premium/price point pains would be solved if we were all simply allowed to purchase bullion directly from the mints. I...
I am a moral relativist in the universal sense, but if we take this perspective too far then we'd conclude that nobody could ever be judged for...
That 2000 10 Centavos is fantastic. Almost an entire letter-width spread!
Interesting. I guess they didn't mind divots in the center of their otherwise masterfully crafted coins eh!
Based on the title of the thread, I was expecting to see a link to some story about a serial killer in a town called Wilma! That last name is a...
Not to us anyway. But if ancient people could see the ridiculously high quality of our cushy, abundant lives, and then hear about the stupid...
I wasn't trying to insinuate that posting the coin was inappropriate. It is the joke that I wanted to post about it that would have been...
To think, your great-great-great grandpa (or whatever it is) held that coin in his hands, pretty cool! Let alone the fact that, while he wasn't...
Ya, I should have mentioned, this provincial Otho that I posted isn't mine. I just googled it and grabbed the first photo that popped up. :shy:...
Ya, I actually just sent a couple in through a dealer for re-holdering . One had a chunk busted out of the edge during shipping (Thanks USPS!) and...
If you're weird for wanting that coin, then I must be weird as well! :shame: I wouldn't even have noticed the hand if you hadn't pointed it out,...
Sounds to me like your motivation is more geared toward "collecting" than you'd like to think. From an investment perspective, buying only one...
I think the fouree is a great coin. The quality is good enough to satisfy the "Tiberius" hole in most collections, the core visibility occurs in...
The mods are necessary, as the forum would devolve into an animal house without them. I do not envy their job though, because drawing arbitrary...
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