Because in case an issue doesn't sell they don't want to have a lot of already coined up stock on hand that represents planchets and boxes they...
That was why mercury was used in gold mining. For placer mining mercury would be put in the baffles of the sluice boxes. Its weight would keep...
The problem is how do you decide how much stock to have on hand? They announced that they would have 37,000 sets on have opening day....
Mercury, being a liquid metal acts like many liquids and starts to dissolve solids. In this case it actually starts "melting" and alloying with...
Doesn't appear to be a PVC flip.
You hear that a lot, but I don't think I have seen a real mercury coated coin in the last 40 years. LOTS of zinc, nickel, chrome plated coins,...
On the bright side, it IS real. So many aren't.
There was a posting on the Coincommunity forum from the ANA that far safety reasons (probably to avoid a stampede.) they are now going to have the...
Usually items like that are done as private sales because neither party really wants the spotlight on the deal for the very fact that it DOES run...
Something else to consider, the German Trillion, is our quadrillion so that 2 rentenpfennig would have been 20,000,000,000,000 marks. (The...
So do what they do. Get 75 guys together, all of them try to get their order in as close to the start as possible, order the maximum number...
Pricing something at 40 shillings though just doesn't make sense it would be like us pricing something today as 40 dimes. We would say four...
Yep, will they think to do it? Would they care? Let it happen, get more submissions.
Or like a lot of modern proof sets a down tick.
If all it said was 40/ it was probably 40 pounds, because 40 shillings would not have been written that way. 40 shillings was 2 pounds and would...
Yes and no. I like getting the coins, it's the bank balance rapidly headed toward zero that hurts.
The GSA said unsalable, of course I guess if they got lost in the shuffle and they couldn't find them at the time then that would make them...
Sorry to say it but both of those coins are fakes.
And if they do I bet we will see a lot of people "borrowing" receipts from those who do buy at the show so they can show "proof" and get their...
No because from a post on the NGC forum someone who purchased around 1AM Eastern time was reporting that the sets were back ordered at that point...
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