coins2006, your method does not tell if a coin is plated silver or not. The thing is nickel can look surprisingly similar to silver.
There is not much ANA can do about other than to educate people how to spot from genuine coins from counterfeits as well as counterfeit slabs....
Give me a break - if China is indeed communist, there wouldn't be any market for consumerable goods. Neither would they have the ability to supply...
Yes, Russians are now loaded with money. A couple of years ago when I was at a coin fair here in Sydney, all I can hear Russians fiercely...
How exactly can you claim this is absolutely true? I would like to see some proof - with more than a billion people in China alone, name me a...
It's not fair to claim that one bad egg spoils everything. You have to watch out for every seller's reputation as each seller are different.
Go and install some microchip tag like what is done on pet animals. So far that hasn't been cracked *yet*
Problem is, it's just greed that's driving counterfeiters to produce higher quality coins. If people think they can get a great steal at 20% or...
There aren't many mines that are purely silver mines, in fact I can't think of one right now but it's often a byproduct of gold and copper mines...
This I disagree, this only applies to old catalytic where manufactures didn't know how to platinum strip. If I am not mistaken, Japanese...
Point is, you don't have to as long as you stick awfully tight to your budget and know how to finance your courses and find a part time job etc....
Northeastcoins apparently do but I have never bought from them before. Just feel free to ask the sellers and see if they do accept such plans. The...
If you don't mind Chinese counterfeit coins, by all means go ahead but I cannot guarantee what they used in their "coins". Sometimes it might be...
Take it this way, these days not too many companies are interested in people without a degree and many more are starting to take it for granted if...
Nice, went through the edging device twice. Nice find.
It is possible to remove the gold plating, that is if you don't mind ruining the layer underneath it. Don't bother, gold plating technology has...
Time to outsource to other countries where quality mint products are still made. That's even worse than some of the proof coins that are struck...
Oldman, I can assure you, it's not a common error. The letter "P" is upside down and out of the tens of samples that I own, NONE of them are...
The Japanese 1 yen coin is made to be exactly 1.0gram which is neat as many children around Japan still use it for scaling purpose for various...
Take it this way, Americans still have issues when it comes to removing cents and mints trying to encourage people to use dollar coins. It's just...
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