I hear you Jim, but I am still in the camp of a variety is on the die, not deterioration of a die changing details. Now, if the mint took off a...
Eh, never try to stand between a hucksters and his mark, it can get ugly. Same thing happens with ancients. People selling common coins, hyping...
Nothing wrong with it if done by a experienced collector. I think it looks much nicer.
My son has a coin necklace, but not on a bezel. I found an Augustus in a lot with an ancient hole in it. It fit his necklace perfectly, so now...
Like I stated earlier, a very pretty example and you did a superb job selecting your coin sir.
The pillars look like they will be the most valuable. They were pretty widely available in the 70s and 80s, but are now much scarcer. They run...
Looks like a venetian ducat but am not a specialist. Looks chipped or clipped. If you do not know anything about is a TPG is not a bad idea to...
Yes and no sir. I disagree, and always have, with US coin collectors differentiating wear from all other damage. To me, missing detail is missing...
Fair point. I wasn't thinking about bullion, I was thinking about rare coins in my post. I imagine bullion is crazy, it always is in times like...
On group 3, the bashlik issue you can see is Sellwood 8.3. However, the coin in the bottom right in that group is also a bashlik issue. I cannot...
1970s era kennedy's are poster children of machine doubling as well as overpolished dies. You really need to read up on differentiations between...
Publicity stunt. They will be sold in special labels, and the tv pitchmen jacking up the hype to charge 8 times more than the coins are worth....
I just got the coin in hand last night. Wow. I have to say even better in hand. reverse is as struck from a fresh die. Very nice quality. I just...
For ancients, seems kind of hit or miss. Some big auctions selling big coins for bigger than average prices. Run of the mill collector coins seem...
I find it funny you only give it a 60, when all agree that this is not an uncirculated coin. Pretty sad, huh?
Modern practice of grading AU coins MS grades. :)
If graded lately, I would grade AU62. I agree with others, this is a coin I would have loved 25 years ago when I loved buying up pretty AU coins....
Yes they are. The beauty of them are what drew me to them to begin with, and like you, got me more interested in the area and history. My avatar...
Passbooks always offered 5.25 percent, (maybe 5.5), as this was some kind of "max" the Feds allowed in the 1970s. Money markets got popular as...
I agree to stay as diversified as possible. All of us, with the benefit of hindsight, would be millionaires at a minimum. Given we do not possess...
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