Ahhhhh Mike, of course ya knew. I've talked about it many times over the years, many times. We have talked about it together many times. But since...
Silver coins are gathered and melted every single day, as are gold coins but to a lesser extent, and this has been going on for literally...
Well Dave, I tried. But as you can see others just can't help themselves.
No, it isn't like the Heritage archives. But you can look up anything you want - http://www.stacksbowers.com/Research/CatalogLibrary.aspx
I think that one's a lost cause. You could try and dip it, but my guess is it's already damaged.
Let me ask a question, which one of my comments in post #12 was not a positive suggestion for new collectors ? Which one ? I'd really like to...
It is a good post, and it was good the first time. But we do have rules about not making multiple copies of the same post. Now it's not that I...
I have always found the world of collecting errors a bit strange. To me, collecting mistakes just isn't appealing. But to others it is so more...
I could share numerous stories and examples of the benefits of being patient. And I could share many stories from my youth of where being...
The Peace. While I like both coins the Morgan has far more bag marks and thus the Peace is the nicer of the two by far.
What afantiques said above is accurate. Not much else that can be said.
Simply amazing aint it :)
Matt if you'd like to know more about the processes used on shipwreck coins then you need to talk to Bob Evans. He's considered to be one of the...
You can, but it's not really advisable. The best way is to do 1 coin at a time. The reason for that is because the more coins you put into the...
Even if you were to use the PCGS pics as a grading guide, which all by itself is a bad idea in my opinion, but IF you were to use it, look at the...
Because somebody else was willing to pay just a little bit more, or he would have. But that doesn't mean that either one of them should have bid...
Sorry, but he's right. They are fakes.
There were never any MT gold thalers struck. Nor any others that I ever heard of.
I've looked in every book I have and there is nothing that even closely resembles this. You say the weight is 1.5gm, standard for ducats was...
Because right now, and for the past 3 years, I've been too busy helping to write what will be the definitive book on Netherlands ducats.
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