Are the stores in your area selling? With silver and gold weak - stock market gains are front page news this week - the local coin shop has said...
Cash in Your Coins: Selling the Rare Coins You’ve Inherited 2nd Edition, by Beth Deisher, Whitman, 2014, 304 pages, $9.95. Intended for the...
You can start with the Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars that honor Apollo 11. Many nations issued Non-circulating legal tender and other...
I liked the Apollo/Soyuz presentation. I have a bit of space and aviation, including two medals struck from space-flown material.
First of all, ANA dealers commit to lifetime authenticity; and ignorance is no excuse for the dealer. That said, how does the dealer know that...
Pontos/Amisos. The search was easy enough on Coin Archives with "Tyche Owl". That took me to Pontos/Amisos where I looked down a long list of...
The Chevy with a Ford nameplate was not original to me. Back about 1994 give or take, I was at an MSNS convention where J. P. Martin was visiting...
Let me try with the one issue I know best of the three, the Athena/Owl. First, the coin weighs too much. A tetradrachm would weigh about 17 grams....
Thanks for the links and references. I appreciate your hard work on our behalf, certainly on mine.
They all do in their own areas. When I was an officer in the Livingston County Coin Club, we invited Allan Beegle to make the drive out from...
They do compare the streak to reference streaks. See the Wikipedia article on Touchstones. Whether "they" had acids depends on who "they" were....
GD, you are sending me on a research quest to write an article. The touchstone was (and is) for gold, not silver. A touchstone or Lydian stone,...
McBride's 2915 San Gabriel (30th at North Lamar) Austin, TX 78705 http://www.mcbridesguns.com/location.htm They do not advertise the coins...
Founded in 1971 by the late R. W. "Bill" Bradford, Liberty Coin Service of Lansing, Michigan, has been owned since 1982 by Patrick A. Heller, a...
I bought from them several times when I worked a project in Dallas. I am not an active mail order or auction buyer. Of course, they are the...
I have shopped here several times since 2012. The last time was this spring. They are very active in common silver and gold. The have a narrow...
"If you want to know the best way to get the local jewelry community angry at the mere mention of your name and business, you should try hiring...
How do you search for a dealer? I mean, mail order is pretty common, so sorting them by state is marginally helpful; you can find their address...
The easy answer is I don't know. Not much is available. This book does have illustrations from a textbook from a shroff school, but that book is...
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