Just a place to put a few. If you are a serious commemorative collector, they have other albums for that.
Sorry, decadrachm. The famous one.
OP, the first looks like an [edit - decadrachm] , but is poor style and those coins are exceedingly rare, but very commonly faked. The second has...
OP, why would you NOT believe there are simply tons of overgraded coins around? Think about it, let's assume, (lol), that TPG's are correct 90% of...
Peak oil production? You do know the US will be oil independent in less than a decade, and we could be one of the largest crude oil exporters...
OK, that is fine. But what about owning farmland, owning rental properties, or other investment alternatives. When a lot of people say "stocks"...
Well, it is called Bullion Investing, not Bullion Worship, right? I am pretty sure I talked about apartment buildings and land as investment...
The problem with hanging your hat on the whole "eroding value of paper money" argument put forth by some PM investors is most investments grow....
No great way to tell by these picks. What I believe others are keying on is the shininess without any luster. Only way to get shiny without luster...
Not unless you are saying every coin has to be slabbed. Please explain to me how a dealer who buys a collection will have time to update this...
One of the main points, to me, of a coin show is to be able to expose myself to something new in numismatics. The internet is good for searching...
I am just curious, what value do you find as being added by them being in MS69 slabs? Proof they are authentic? To me, a MS69 ASE is a reject from...
I try to go first day when possible. This is when any new purchases the dealers made from other shows will be on display. Yes, they might be a...
Spectacular link Mr. Esty. I remember reading it shortly after I started collecting ancients over a dozen years ago. Its just as applicable now as...
Doug said it best. Yes, its a rare coin, but who cares? I do not mean that in a mean sense, but literal. Are there collectors out there who are...
I would say yes its real, but maybe not much value. Most world coins are not so hyper collected like US coins are, and errors like this usually do...
Personally, I would suspect the reaction with both aluminum and copper coins and acetone was due to impurities of the metal or something on the...
I agree with Jeff and Doug. One, acetone will not remove AT if the AT is a chemical reaction of the metal. It does a pretty decent job of removing...
Yes, like John said, its a form of Fel Temp Reparatio coins. There are five types. Loosely translated, it means "happy times are here again". It...
Turn the reverse a quarter turn to the left. The left character is Bao, and the right is the mint. Looks like Beijing. THe obverse of the coin was...
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