I just received five British coins from a recent auction. The first one is this George I six pence. [ATTACH] George I was German. He became...
They are not paying off the principle on a net basis. They are only rolling over the mature bonds into new issues.
MS-62.
Yes, from my experience, when the market goes down, the quality of the material offered goes along with it. It takes a few years for the better...
I think the gold price will go nuts in some currency. If there is a default, I don’t think that the price of gold will fall. It will do quite the...
Here is a Constantine II silvered follis that has a lot of the coating left. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Silvered Centenionalis of Constantine II,...
And the sad part was she didn’t do anything wrong except to be used by her elders to gain power in the government. When a small tried to depose...
The San Francisco Mint was issuing cents for circulation back then. Large numbers of them went straight to collectors’ coin albums which made...
That’s okay. Some of these “third world grading companies” were created in the 1980s for Internet sales. Some of their stuff is still out there...
It looks genuine to me, just well used.
Nickel coins and “black beauty” do not go together. Black nickel coins are corroded, which is environmental damage. They are worth far less than...
If you have ever read about how the British executed people, right up until the time of George III (early 1800s), cutting off your hands was...
Unfortunately things were not that great by this time. Georgia gold was high purity, but there was not enough of it to keep everyone employed....
I have always liked gold dollars. That makes me different from most collectors because the vast majority of collectors think "Bigger is better."...
A couple of days ago, I posted a story about a satirical medalet that was issued against Charles Dana who was the editor of The New York Sun...
@Mountain Man was kind enough to gift one to me alone with its Philadelphia counterpart. I could see where these could end up in a roll of cents...
I had a number Lincoln campaign pieces sent to me in PVC holders that were breaking down. The guy had bought them in an auction and never taken...
I think that all of the graders are backed up. It took me three months to get three pieces of Confederate paper money graded from NGC. They were...
I have subscribed to Coin World for a very long time. It's the only weekly coin newspaper I get. I enjoy it because it's not filled up with the...
I am currently working on a notebook for my collection of 19th century presidential campaign tokens, medalets and medals. I had thought about...
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