Those 10 year old prices should tell us something.
Usacoinbook, I check it once every few months and it's very slow for what I collect.
I've seen on eBay a substantial price jump on pre-1920 Italian silver coins.
Yes, the "M" under the 1811 date is for the Milano mint. And in Italian is written Napoleone Emperor and King
99% of the coins I buy are from eBay and I take a screen shot of the purchase and I keep it on my iPhone and the Cloud. I also use the albums...
Just had visions of the movie "Bronx Tale", one of my favorite movies
I was thinking the same thing, looks like XF details. Coin might have been toned very dark/black and some prior owner wanted to clean it up.
Obviously beauty is in the eye of all those bidders who fought each other over that coin
I Agree about the stock photos being used by crooked Russian sellers. There's no way I would knowingly waste my time playing into these Russian...
There's a bidding war going on and there's a bidder with over 1600 feedbacks bumping the bids up with around 20 bids. Why would an experienced...
Converting coin finds to cash ? Sell them at coin shows for cash only transactions, eBay, auctions and even sell them to LCS's
If you haven't read about the Saddle Ridge Hoard, as coin collectors it's a dream come true. Those two buckets of gold coins worth $10 Million...
Nice Napoleone Italian crown. On the obverse he wants everyone to know he was Emperor and King ;)
Does anybody know where the early Haitian coins were minted. I would guess France ?
I use small wood tongs to place the coin into the Acetone
For me most of these Spanish 8 Reales coins look suspect. I have a 1783 8 Reales coin and it's a El Cazador ship wreck coin and it's slabbed....
Most of us using Acetone are only using small amounts. I use about a baby food jar full and when I'm done on the cement it goes and like magic...
LOL, you have no idea what it's like to live in a heavily taxed state like Calif. Over here they would love to tax how much air you breath.
Beautiful gold coin and excellent write up on it's history. Can't beat gold coins and their ability to resist corrosion
How does that work, does New Hampshire have sales tax ?
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