Sorry Ed, my crystal ball is broken, and my mind reading license has been revoked. :D BTW as a non-collector of US coins, I have no idea what a...
The size of the buyers fee (or the seller's fee for that matter) should only concern the seller. An experienced auction buyer set's a price...
[img] to CoinTalk slizofski. You have described a privately issued medal, not a coin. If it is gold-colored it may be gold, brass, aluminum...
In the first place it's a 3.30g koban, not a 112.4g oban. The current edition Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalog values one version...
Outgasing from the glue can be much more harmful than staple corrosion, especially since the corrosion wouldn't physically contact the coins...
So you're saying that Barnum was right?
No question about the second one. I would place the odds ay about 98.765 to 1 that the first one is also damaged.
Probably not, if you limit your collecting to US coins, and ignore the vast wealth of material available in world coins, ancient coins, and...
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For large coins I use 4, for the smaller ones I use 3 in a triangular pattern. Of course, I flatten them all. The primary aim is to make sure...
First time I've seen this Email, supposedly from EBay: Subject: eBay New Unpaid Item Message from nascar*stuff*: #160006233575 -- response...
IMHO that coin is as uncirculated as the '03 cent I got in pocket change yesterday. :(
Whether or not they realize the legality, there will still be the problem that there is no easy way to distinguish between early and late 1982s,...
If you think the coin is a grade X, then bid/offer grade X money for it, regardless of what grade SEGS (or PCGS for that matter) says about it....
Read his negative feedback here and you may decide not to wait any longer. :(
And well you should be. That's one cute kid you have there. (Almost as cute as my granddaughter of about the same age. :D )
The use of fiber, caused by wartime shortages, may have been based on the earlier use by the US of the same material for the production of "red...
Just think about the process of minting a coin, and you will realize that there is nothing in that process that could cause the kind of damage...
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