Pandas are simply BRUTAL OP. Unless you trust the seller like APMEX buy them slabbed for the older ones. They are even striking them on pure...
Cool Arab Sassanian. As a quick background, some Parthian nobles sided against the Sassanians, (due to being themselves betrayed), and sided with...
$3000 for gold? I would probably pick up five or six Byzantine gold coins of one gold stater of Alexander III, Babylon mint preferably.
Yeah, but if that were strongly enforced we couldn't have half the posts on the PM section. Half here are accused to being succubis' of evil paper...
The downside will be broken if the pm market stays low. I think this is the second or third downturn in pm since I have been on CT, and in every...
Eh, maybe he screwed up. Life happens. Maybe his wife sold the thing not knowing it was on Ebay, maybe he meant to mail it and by the time he...
I am with you that we do not need to only pursue famous people and cultures. Most historians have not really heard of the cultures I collect let...
Man, now I am a sad puppy. You just had to pull out the 3rd century Chach with the cross that got bronze disease, didn't you Doug. :( I still...
Its not bad to drill into and crack to release natgas, but yeah, dumb to try to convert to oil. Heck, grinding up turkey parts for oil is smarter...
There could be something, but with the new design mintmarks were protected and not polished away like on certain coins like cents. On a cent it...
I would agree. Maybe its the pic, but the bottom seems to have too much chatter for a 65. The first one really is terrific. A 67 would not...
Reminds me of all of the "1916d" dimes I have pulled out of albums over the years. Stare hard enough, and wish hard enough, and you can try to...
Yeah, all of those small thin medieval coins with crosses. I never have gotten into them much. I have some, I am a hoarder after all, but the only...
1. All pm pundits have been saying "paper can go to zero" for decades. It is a red herring argument to throw out when they have nothing positive...
BD = bronze disease. A light flaky green substance that will destroy a copper coin if not treated. I have no idea IF Steve is joking.....we never do.
I would caution, however, to only counterstamp coins you KNOW are fakes. I have seen real coins condemned because they were found with fakes. Each...
BD will spread, but I do not necessarily see BD here. What happened IMHO is the patina was already unstable and the soaking simply accentuated the...
Very true. Coin collectors, especially ones spoiled by sites like this and get to discuss coins, do not really understand how we are a tiny, tiny...
And I own a few US keys. I was simply posting my thoughts on a subject I don't think collectors think about. I understand to think about, when...
I have a few of these anepigraphic coins I have posted here some time back. For the life of me I do not remember which ones I own. Either getting...
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