So my local dealer had a random group of ancients come in, and of course I am always a sucker for random groups of ancients. Its not really my...
I agree. Not a famous hoard. Another point that is important even for US collectors to grasp. A slab does NOT add value to a coin. It makes it...
And that is great man. Doug gets excited by a new eastern mint SS, and I get excited by a common Sogdian piece with a cross on the reverse. Those...
I agree. Severus has coins we could call "geeky cool", (most of us here would be labelled coin geeks), but not non-geek cool, something that would...
If the OP is talking another 2008, cash is the best. For as much as some pm people like to deride cash, it performed the best in 2008. Even gold...
Um, not sure how to respond to the nerd aspect of this thread. My degrees are in accounting and Finance, and I am currently a Doctoral student. Is...
Hard to tell sir. What kind of downturn? A downturn where everything falls, and the wealthy suffer as much as anyone? Then I would say something...
Its an attractive piece. I do not blame you for wanting it. You know as well as I do Ken there are two competing aspects of this hobby. There are...
I understand sir, but I would still consider your coin 1 to be higher reverse style than coin 2, and just the reverse for the obverse. Since coins...
Its just experience sir. Lots of looking, paying attention, etc. One good thing to do is peruse a site like CNG. Pay attention to which coins and...
I would say a few things are happening with these two coins IoM, and I would like to talk about them for further illumination to new collectors....
No, that would be the going price. I just bought a coin on Ebay and in the pic it looked ordinary, but in hand it was a lustrous silvered beauty,...
Severus Alexander is a very easy ruler to find. Nothing is wrong with that coin pictured except for porous surfaces. Its not a bad coin, its just...
Our grading scale, which predates US grading by centuries, is Fair-XF, wit an exquisite example as struck and fine style being FDC. We use "a"...
I have to agree with others. I actually saw an original roll of these being opened about 25 years ago, not one of them looked that shiny. I...
Then that is a great attitude Ken. I simply remember Canadian stuff selling for almost nothing for decades since the RCM flooded the US market in...
When anyone tries to equate mineral, (or other natural resource), wealth has anything to do with long term success of their economy, I simply...
I respect that Ken, but there is a corollary even to those who don't buy most. When a mint saturates the market like this, it has a tendency to...
Its great you are interested, but there is no such thing as a Redbook for ancients. We literally have hundreds of thousands more types than US...
Yeah, but I have quite a few ancients with tags from the 60's, (a few from the 30's). In most of those cases you would have been better off buying...
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