That $4.95 price on ebay was a steal and I wish I saw it :) Most of the time Puerto Rican silver coins on ebay are expensive. Check out the...
I think a true indicator of how healthy the coin hobby is is the volume of coin sales on Ebay. The Bay is by far the biggest market place for...
Turn the clock back to 1970 at a coin show and most of the people there would have been born between 1900 to 1930 and they'd be asking each other...
I hope it gets much softer :) unfortunately that's not the case with what I collect.
Ken, sorry to see this happened to you guys. You might want to consider cutting down any of those trees that are close to your house. I had one...
I have a 1915 Cuban peso crown, the one crown I want to get my hands on is a Puerto Rican crown, but for some reason they go for big money.
LOL, I see you have an illegal on Ebay, Cuban Peso crown. :) BTW, is Cuba the only country who's coins are banned on Ebay ?
My main interest is Italian and Sicilian crowns and half-crowns 1600's to 1870's. However, I've started collecting Spain and it's colonies' crowns.
Seller was going to screw you and then decided to do the right thing once you called him out on it. And good luck with Ebay doing anything about...
I don't know how active you are on Ebay, but it don't work like that in reality.
True, but they will all sell for good money on Ebay :) The old adage that a cleaned coin is only worth melt is far from true in today's market.
Can't stand post 1964 American clad coins. Slight exception for 40% silver clad coins.
How well I know that feeling in the last few seconds of an auction. For me it's only been on Ebay. Great feeling when you win and it sucks when...
So 1971 is the first year of issue and it appears all the coins minted in 1971 from the San Francisco mint were 40% silver.
Were those coins clad like the 1965-up Kennedy half's ?
What do you have in your Italian Lira collection ? and are you collecting pre-Italian unification lira coins ?
What is the "tissue test" ?
They should put half of them in museums and the other half, slab them and put them up for sale.
Yes, Mylar flips can also break when you put larger crown size coins in them.
As soon as I receive a coin I always remove them from the seller's flip and put coin in a new flip.
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