Besides... the Celtic imitation is not a forgery. We make a mistake when we project ourselves on the past. If the coin was good silver, it was...
Dealers tend to buy these art bars and rounds at 10% under and sell at 10% over spot. It's an easy market for them. I like to sort through the...
I agree with Theodosius. If you must go to a bazaar, at least goto VCoins. The dealers there are all vetted and credentialed. I have never had a...
"From the Mint to the Moon with John Leonard Riddell." Riddell was chief melter of the New Orleans Mint. He was also the first working scientist...
Obviously, I like CoinTalk, but every week on Sunday night, I get the E-Sylum mail list from the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. The NBS is the...
The ANA has "always" had two shows, since 1980. I mean for me, 1980 is like yesterday in my active memory. But, my daughter was born in 1979, so...
Don't believe everything you hear from a coin dealer. Literally, it would mean 85 people from the public for the 330 dealers. That is simply not...
The E-Sylum maillist has ads from Kolbe & Fanning, Charles Davis, and others who specialize in literature.
Yeah... the smoking gun for the coins he stole from the ANS...
Sorry to have missed that... But I agree that online presentations are not for casual reading. I do have a Microsoft Surface that I thought I...
See my replies. Just to note, my Chopmarked Coins: A History by Colin Gullberg was autographed for me by the author as was Q. David Bowers's...
Red Books are an interesting collectible, of course. The ones from the late 1960s included fake Western Gold bars and coins that were condemned,...
I know what you mean. I set up at a local show when I can get a table and I was happy to be able to sell my Breen's to a young guy who is just...
. As I said, I have been getting rid of my library as I get older and it gets to be problematic, but I have 42 basic books in my office right now....
Sorry to hear that you are not in the ANA now. You would have electronic access to all 125 years. There's nothing like the electronic search to...
The 100 Greatest Errors book has an error of its own if you compare it to the 100 Greatest Modern US Coins. Not my area, but when I brought both...
Then you do not know what you need. In other words, you do not appreciate how little you actually know or (worse) how little your sources are...
Ed Snible is correct: my coin is an overstrike. I got the certification back from David Sear the other day. He said: "VF and an interesting...
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