What I was attempting to get at in this thread wasn't about profit strategies and so forth, as I never purchase coins with the intent of selling...
I'm a bit of a compulsive collector. I've went on baseball card kicks, US $1 currency kicks (only need 4 more!), ancient Roman coin kicks...
Agreed, if I were purchasing raw coins, I wouldn't go near Ebay with a 10 ft pole. However, I purchased slabbed coins and sold the same slabbed...
You twisted my arm! <------- :happy:
Speaking of aureii being valued as bullion: http://a-coins.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-brescello-hoard-largest-and-most.html It's heartbreaking to...
Can't say that I have much to add in terms of evaluation, but this certainly is an interesting coin. As someone that started in modern coins (as...
I'm with Red on this one. Unless the delamination spontaneously occurred after your bid was placed, then pre-disclosed, readily apparent...
Last month, I went on a bit of a binge in a Heritage auction and purchased 10 coins (Binge for me anyway). Among the coins were these 3:...
A couple other potential reasons: -Nero is the "Beast" described in the Book of Revelation, and the Number of the Beast is his name. This might...
I've always had the expectation that my collection would eventually include examples of the Late Republic players, obscure usurpers, and short...
I perused this auction fairly closely and have some of the "Non-featured" coins on the watch list, but this "Boscoreale" detail escaped my...
I'm glad that you found my post useful in providing some support, vindication, etc. It is unfortunate that you were treated the way that you...
I have one thing to say to this journalist....... More pictures!
Like I said, I don't remember exactly how the conversations went, so I may be putting words in their mouth to some extent. But what I know for...
Reminds me of that scene with Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: "And, uh, here I am now by myself, uh, uh, talkin to myself" haha!
You mean, "If the coin looked similar to this one, but wasn't tooled, then I would have bid $1000". Who knows what this coin looked like...
I referenced this thread from 2 years ago as part of a different discussion in another thread, I didn't intend to have it bumped back to the top...
I'm glad that you got my point. After posting the hole-filler crack it occurred to me that it might be taken literally. I certainly don't want to...
I have a few coins with victory reverses. Couldn't help noticing that Victoria looked a lot like what modern Westerners would call angels. I was...
I actually made a thread about the ordeal back when it happened, there are pictures in there:...
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