1. I have stated before shipping does not need to be only shipping costs. What about the cost of packaging, self insurance, and wages to get it...
Well, how would you know that Peace? How do you know that people took delivery from this stockpile for use versus it simply being withdrawn from...
First, shipping isn't just shipping. It's shipping and handling, so I never sweat what a seller wishes to charge. Maybe he is in an expensive area...
But we can simply take interest rates to zero effectively forever if we wish, or just inflate ourselves out of debt. Inflation is the ultimate tax...
Something like this is only valuable in context. Is the silver inventories moving down because people are taking silver out because they wish to...
Very common. I see the same with nearly every investment. Retail, or inexperienced, investors time and time again buy high and sell low. I am not...
Maybe, but not at the same premiums. In my experience, premiums go down when prices reach a certain point. More importantly for coin/bullion...
You gave one data point. I gave repeated history of what happens to spreads in changing markets. I said I buy long term and hold, and you had to...
Mike, the main thing I would say would be there used to be someone on this very board who I felt the same about. He would actually quote my post,...
Off the top of my head the second one looks like Yuan dynasty seal script, but I have never seen that reverse on any Chinese coin. The Yuan were...
Like I have always said, please post your own unbiased articles about pm then. I am always willing to read. I continue to say that, yet the pm...
It's insulting when I point out articles that do not disclose their biases? Sorry if pointing out inherent biases that many readers may know about...
Yes, it is a completely different animal than regular collecting, and I mean that in a good way. Conservative grading, (EF is about the higest...
Of course everything I buy someone wants to sell. But, the difference is I make up my own mind whether to buy, and do not rely on salesman pitches...
I have been around pm since the first spike and crash in 1980. When prices spike up, the buy discount spreads. When prices drop quickly the sell...
Anywhere raw silver can tone very quickly. There was an estate I bought some coins from, (mainly for below spot), since the man stored the coins...
First off, welcome to Cointalk. Second, "I found some coins that are rare and unique". Well, rare maybe, unique highly doubtful. In coin...
Like half dollars, $2 bills used to circulate more widely. It seems our ancestors were much more open to multipl denominations than we are. What...
Yeah, knowledgeable coin collectors buy in the Walmart of the coin business. That does not mean there is anything wrong with people who do not...
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