Type is one of the few words in numismatics where its meaning changes depending upon the context in which it is being used. When used as type 1 or...
All business strike SBA's are the same type. And there are a few varieties within that type. While it is true that many numismatic terms are used...
That's kind of the thing about dealers though. It doesn't matter who it is, there are going to be both good and bad reports. Any dealer or company...
It is also full of even higher numbers of "bait fish" who swim around blissfully ignorant just waiting for the sharks to come and eat them ;)
What's serious value ? To you it might be $1000 or more, to me it might be $100 or more, to somebody else it might be over $10,000 - $100,000...
Read the link that Books posted, that explains the difference between Grey and Blue.
Savy, a point that no one has mentioned yet is this, and I would strongly consider it to be the first step in what you are considering. That would...
Yeah, ebay was established in '95, in the founder's living room. Even for the entire year of 1996 ebay only had a total of 250,000 items listed....
The point is that there is a HUGE difference between cleaned, and harshly cleaned. The coin was slabbed by NGC. There are millions and millions...
Put it on ebay Matt. Probably the rarest thing on the planet !
I'll apologize in advance for sidetracking your thread, but you got your answer and I just can't resist posting this. Got a devil inside me...
What else do you want to know George ? There's not much more that can be said other than what has already been said.
No doubt of that, but that's the way it has been for as long as coins have existed, and yet they're still here. Why ? Because of people like us....
You can't find one at any price because none exist. There is not one example of any coin that grades MS70 dated prior to the late 1950's. And...
Ya sure Larry ? They might say improper storage :rolleyes:
Sorry, but they didn't because ebay didn't exist yet. Were they cheaper then ? Absolutely. But in just a year or so they were selling for about...
Well, if had sold them about 6 or 7 years ago, your return would be roughly double what it would be today. Does that answer your question ?
Well I've never seen full page ads Paul, but I have seen ads for it. More than once.
There's one thing you're not thinking of Paul, exposing the name(s) of those who can easily AT coins is a bad idea because it then makes them...
There are very rarely (almost never) any re-prints, that's why books are expensive. I've paid hundreds of dollars for a single book, and I have...
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