Even if you know those things, and can see the edge - it's still impossible to say for sure. Unless you are an expert in these coins who can...
All anybody did was try to be helpful and give you honest answers. But it seems you either cannot or perhaps will not recognize them as such. But...
Galen, even common date Saints slabbed and graded as high as MS63 and sometimes even 64 routinely sell for about 10% over melt. And if they are...
Perhaps, just perhaps, that is because they know that the items are in violation of the Hobby Protection Act and do not want to let anyone know...
How are you defining "scrap" Galen ? I'm asking because to some, maybe even many, scrap price is not the same thing as melt price - but it can...
You can't always tell based on pictures. Nor can you always tell based on weight and measurement and in hand examination. The one and only way you...
Maybe, but then again maybe not. And we do from time to time. It was a recent episode of exactly that which prompted me to post the warnings I...
Norm - The graph I posted comes from PCGS, you can access it here - https://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.aspx?type=coinindex&filename=index When...
I understand your point, I truly do. But do you understand mine ? Allow me to give you an example. You're at the grocery store and on your way...
To answer that all you really have to do is consider the name given to our hobby - it was and often still is referred to as the "hobby of kings"....
It happens all the time and always has. And quite a few of them have even been upgraded by NGC and PCGS. But as a general rule, NGC and PCGS are...
Throughout it's history, and I mean from the very beginning, the numbers of coin collectors has increased at times and decreased at times. The...
I have 7 books on Spanish colonial coinage, plus the Krause catalogs, remaining in my library, and not a one of them provides mintage numbers. And...
I'd agree with Burton that that's part of it. The other part is the industry as a whole, and that especially includes the TPGs and all of the...
Norm what you need to realize, or should I say learn, is that price guides are worthless. Worse than worthless even for they do to many folks...
Quite a few of them do participate on a regular basis. Not as much as some guys do no, but they do participate. I just think for the most part it...
I think you're looking at the wrong things Jeff, or maybe saying looking at them in the wrong way would be more accurate. The way I'm looking at...
I strongly agree. The average age of forum members has been going down for years and is now right around 30. And over the years, several of those...
Sure, one can do that. Assuming of course that one is capable of doing that, meaning they have the knowledge and experience necessary to...
I should probably just let this thread die and fade into the distance like all threads eventually do, but for some reason I feel the, I dunno,...
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