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Davenport, Bitkin, Seaby, --they are only good books because they have attribution numbers everyone agrees on. The pricing information in them is...
WoW(!) Those are sensational. Especially the Vienna-Trieste Railway issue. Most of my Austrian coins are 20th century, but some real killer coins...
If you will increase your spending limit to $135 a whole bunch of coins become available, and since they sell for closer to melt (percentage-wise)...
I've always found fake gold coins to be some of the easier to identify counterfeits. A digital scale is about all you need for most of them, and...
Yes, quite sad on the eBay situation. It used to be such a wide-open seller friendly place to unload duplicates (etc) and now it's pretty much a...
Agree, the selection Stack's-Bowers & Ponterio has up for bid are far more compelling. Did you check-out eBay? Go to Austria and search on "NGC"...
Seems like there are a lot of Austrian States coins for sale at the moment from the 16th thru 18th century. A ton on eBay, and both...
Personally, I don't think getting coins slabbed is a good use of funds unless the coin is in the higher mint state range. If it doesn't have a...
Offer, counter offer, counter-counter offer, --what a waste of time. The proper approach is simply "what's the best deal you can swing me on the...
Is crackle the same as pickled?
I think it grades a solid WWAB. (Why Would Anyone Bother)
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The Canadian gold coins from that era are great collectibles. I had the entire 6-coin set at one time, and sold-off all of them...
In the haberdashery business, we called them "strokers", -customers (if you can call them that) who were more interested in petting the...
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Megabus? LoL...,, I'm actually going. Airfare from KC was only $263 and the hotel within walking distance $69 a night. And I made reservations...
[ATTACH] The real differentiator when it comes to rarity, is whether examples of the coin reside within a collection for many years. If a coin is...
Couldn't say for sure on the cleaning without looking at it, but I was guessing AU55. On the Norfolk, which btw has always been my favorite...
Agree on the bean, the most banal addition to the promotion they could have possibly made. But at least they didn't put the sticker in front of...
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