The problem I always had with these hucksters is no one thinks it through. If we DID have $15k gold, that would mean the economy was in free fall,...
I see thirteen as well. I think the top edge you are counting as a stripe.
Wise sentiment. If you do not like/love a coin at first glance, it will never improve with owning it longer. My best acquisitions are those that...
I would be around aVF-VF. Its a nice coin. Any ancient in the VF range is a nice coin. I am glad to see conservative grading. NN always has "flat"...
Yeah. Once you have seen a few hundred original steel cents, the "reprocessed", (basically recoated), cents look like shiny paint was applied to...
Those premiums make me feel good about my holding. :)
They are all over strikes, or probably more properly double strikes. Anonymous files seem very susceptible to them, especially the reverses.
I think Wayne Sayles intro book on Byzantines is a good book for one reason. It explains the different intentions of the Byzantines versus the...
Dude, if you like errors, you will have a field day in Byzantine coins. Probably the most numerous and dramatic errors ever to occur to coins...
Nothing to add, I have always heard both used and most know either can be used to describe what you mean. Maybe its a geographic thing, uptight...
I always considered the Byzantines to be the true point where "token value" of copper coins really came into being. They simply seemed to have...
Another way of thinking about it, is maybe one planchet manufacturer was using jewelry as the source of this gold. This is usually gold and...
I agree, (for what its worth, I am not the experts many others on this thread are). The edges being weak also strengthened my argument for a very...
This is close to my thought. Best way to get deals is having relationships with the dealers. I have a couple of dealers who call me to move...
I can say I do not believe unions in the USA work for the betterment of the company in general, they work for job security of their members,...
Respectfully @Alegandron I do not see it political. I think we have done a good job keeping it not so. Maybe the thread belongs in Coin chat...
Top one by far sir. That is a heck of an attractive VG in my opinion.
Like I said, he may not have experience with mail, but he IS a logistic management expert, which is a pretty good fit IMHO. It is congress that...
I doubt there is anyone on here doubting PMD. I thought it was fair enough to ask if anyone may recognize the pattern of damage on the coin. I...
If someone has this expensive piece of equipment. Does it also verify thickly coated bars with proper weights? Would it have caught those tungsten...
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