I am with you. While I appreciate St. Gauden's artistry, (I actually prefer the $10 Indian versus the $20), coins struck for commerce I could...
So...Mr. I have asked you 15 times already if you profit from modern coin flipping or slabbing from the mint and you ignore me, you are saying MCM...
However, there are already millions of them. Sure, those who make their living fleecing collectors by cheating the system, paying others to place...
For any other coin, undoubtedly I agree. For Morgabs, there are simply unimaginable amount of collectors. Change the return policy if they are...
While I am said the most exciting things the mint can come with are old designs unless they resort to gimmicky tiny mintages, I agree. They don't...
SG silver around 10.5, brass around 8.5....
Yeah, I posted a writeup about mine maybe 7 years ago here. Aretas was the Nabatean king who surrendered to the Romans, @John Anthony could...
Its your personal hobby OP. Depends entirely on you. I do know some OCD types who could not stand it. I am the opposite, cannot standing having to...
Robert K has an article about them. His view, (which I share), is the ones with the monogram in front of the men are Roman Republican issue to pay...
The modern hoard was found around 2010 or so. The market was flooded with them. Yours appears to be the earlier type, possibly struck by Brutus....
I agree. "Rare" can never be determined by quantity known alone, its always a correlation between quantity and demand. If 2000 people in the world...
Interesting note. I got a group lot at HA some months back with three examples. one of I believe only 2 as far as I see depicting slaves on CSA...
Probably more are uniface in my guess than double sided. Depends on the issue, both were printed. I have never known the rhyme or reason why...
Be careful on the restore. If you do this, and many do, you can run into problems if your new system versus old were not identical. Things such as...
I agree with @Claudius_Gothicus . However, I am not saying these coins "should not exist". Rather, its wonderful they DO exist because it fills in...
They did, they were called coin notes I believe. The reason they were called gold or silver certificates was due to the coins being held in...
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