I have enough trouble compiling the want list of emperors I wish to buy. You guys sometimes add to it, but I do have my limits. It draw the line...
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I tend not to think about items that are uncollectable. It spoiled my joy when I collected half cents by die variety. I am a lot more interested...
My bad. I misinterpreted David Sears wording in his write-up. I have not taken an ancient history course since the 7th grade.
Yes, Fisk and Gould wanted to corner the gold market. They were paying Grant’s son in law to help them do it. I think that it was less Grant’s...
Just as in the past, the coin collectors are saying that gold price will come down, and buying old, worn coins with little or no numismatic value...
If I were a novice collector, I would be very concerned about counterfeit gold coins. That’s why I bought gold coins only from certain, often...
I buy in auctions and from dealers’s websites I know from when the shows were operating.
The $20.67 per ounce price pegged the melt value of a $20 gold piece at about $20. A double eagle weighed a little less than an ounce. Unlike the...
Many people think of the Roman Empire as a country to existed for hundreds of years during the period before and after the birth of Christ. In...
Supposedly the Grant administration got paper and gold at par at the end of his second term in 1877. He bragged about that in his best-selling...
If you bought all of the stuff the mint offers, you wouldn't have any money left for anything else. It might be me, but I think you can get better...
Given the spots in one of the photos, my grade would be MS-63, brown.
The set is what you want to make it. The only thing I will say is if you use a cardboard, widow slide based album, don’t put the Proofs in it....
No, they were not making Proofs in San Francisco at that time. I see a spot in one photo so my guess is MS-65, Brown.
She said, “Buy it.” What would you say? I will say I have not seen a better one since. It’s equal some of the coins that make it into MS-62 holders.
It looks like it's very nicely struck on a high quality planchet for the issue. The color looks a little light, but that could be the photo. The...
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