The big auction houses do not consider the "buyer" to be a customer, though of course they want the buyer to be happy. Their real customer is the...
MS66 RD.
---OR--- Maybe not. The luster looked right, but there are those little blobs inside the number 4 in the date! And also some lumpiness to the...
I've seen other Russian gold coins, in particular a 3 Rouble that was clearly a counterfeit slabbed by PCGS. On the German-Empire coins, I guess...
Looks like Ottoman aka Turkey.
One only need look to what the economy of most oil rich nations are like to understand resource based economies are not very stable, nor do they...
Looks real to me, -in fact, looks like it might be a rare silver off-metal strike of the issue and possibly worth a couple thousand dollars.
Indeed. Instead, the US brought the world Hogan's Heros, first released less than a year after Churchill died.
Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!!
Probably cleaned, but so what...,, [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Holy smokes, what a rock-n-roll 24 hours it has been for the metals! Well, it would kind of make sense that some sort of recovery is in the...
Yup, and that doesn't include changes to employer based healthcare coverage that makes having kids or a non-working spouse another $800 a month...
All of the cash-for-gold places are folding-up here, several have converted to "vape" stores selling smokeless cigarette paraphernalia. One...
The FED did a pretty good job of pretending precious metals prices didn't matter when they were headed skyward a few years ago. What about now...
Agree, I've been to a couple estate sales that were all coins and I made out great. My all-time favorite being an estate auction held by Mac's...
It's real, in the bottom of a chaffing dish or something like that, and heavily polished. Or at least that's how I interpreted the last post. Not...
Rather than think of it as a melt, try to think of it as cremation, with the remains scattered and becoming part of the environment we all live...
Bawahahahaha! If you're part of the "we" controlling the government you don't really have much need for precious metals, just have your friend...
Never suggested it wasn't legal. My point is, why would anyone drive 50 miles to attend an auction like that when you can get a better deal from...
Funny you should mention that, last estate sale I was at went like this: Waited 90 minutes to get to the world gold. Only coin I was really...
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