The good ones of today can be tough. All made before say 2005 aren't hard to spot due to the idea I expressed. Real coins have a certain life to...
Kind of hard for it to be "us versus PCGS". Since these refuse to follow ANA grading standards, by definition the PCGS grade of something is...
Yeah, but I am betting those dealers are trading short term gain for long term customers. I know once I receive one or two coins that the seller...
They probably had a quarterly earning call they needed to hit, so went back to the whole "coin collector piggy bank". Need to boost profits? No...
I agree. Chinese Cash collectors have a name for this, it's called the shen of the coin. Real coins have this artistic balance, fakes do not. The...
Not because it's standardized sir, but because they are governments. It's get back to the very definition of what a coin IS, a piece of metal...
So let me ask you this, why should chopmarks be treated differently than a US merchant stamping a coin, or a young man creating a love token out...
I don't know the specific answer to your question today. Chopmarks have had a weird go of it, from being about the worst damage on a Trade dollar...
They are X's, not swastikas. Swastikas are not common on Roman coins at all, especially imperial ones. They are very common on central Asian and...
With all photography, the goal is to make the coin look like it does in hand. If you need to modify lighting, use Photoshop, or whatever, you...
1. Mel Brook "History of the World, (part 1)"? 2. Yeah, gold is tough. They are so shiny light bounces off really bad. I posted pretty bad photos...
1. Small since you want to minimize storage space. 2. Black, since it will accent the gold better.
They are 4 baht of silver, so between 61 and 62 grams of high grade silver. Any kind of coppery color on the surface is just discoloration from...
I guess it backfired in my case. That was the last episode I ever saw it ticked me off so much. Might as well watched the goofy overscripted...
This is one of those "tweeners" where I am unsure where to post. I guess since it dates around 1300 or so I will post it here instead of ancients....
Yeah, but I know what the OP is saying. Why LIE about facts when the facts themselves are fine? I remember their episode with a shekel of Tyre,...
Good gosh yes. Lots of dealers have their own websites. There are huge auction firms like Heritage. There are coin shows where many dealers show...
Best to you and yours too sir. It must be exciting to be able to buy coins locally. I actually specialize in coins from ancient Afghanistan and...
The elamite coin, if authentic, is a very rare/expensive coin. It definitely would be worth getting checked out by a dealer sir. The problem as I...
Well, FWIW I will be at FUN next week if anyone wants to hit me up and talk coins.
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