JA, at least your snow will melt. Ours has been here since Nov, and will not go away until May most likely. Heck, we had a 6 day stretch this year...
A mintage of 1500 is only low if there are more than 1500 people who want one. If only 500 people want one, there are way too many right? Way...
Yes, very well could be. It was so crude that is why I was thinking it was a Arab copy. Really hard to tell if its a very crude official issue,...
At first blush I would suspect Arab-Byzantine and the reverse is upside down.
Seriously, you too? I was way too young to be a proper hippy, but had hair down my back in high school, listening to Beatles, Stones, and Joplin...
Hmm, I would have never guessed you had a decade on me Mike. You must type "young". :)
I agree with Mike. Sure, this could come to pass Jolumoga, but what will this mean? Nothing unless you know something further. Maybe the same...
Withdrawals from lack of product from the Canadian mint? Is there another mint in the world that has MORE coins out every year? When I see the ad...
Their grading for ancients just gives a letter grade, no numbers. The numbers are only for strike and surfaces separately. I would not mind the...
Yes, many Mithradates from many different areas, all unrelated. Mithradates from Pontus and Persia bacame famous, but there were others. Always...
My only comment would be they didn't "figure out" gold was valuable, they learned Europeans valued it and would trade very valuable items for it....
The US government budget shows the payment of seignorage from the mint back to the US Treasury account. So, any profit from the mint is returned...
I do not see "dealer bashing" of bullion dealers on here. I "bash" writers who stir up fear and panic in order to sell their newsletters or pm...
Yes, I have read it was very common for the earliest coins of the new emperor, before the new bust circulated, to look like the old emperor just a...
Of course it is. You now own an authentic silver coin of one of the best emperors in ancient Roman history. How bloody cool is that! We get...
Most are like that. I haven't seen a machine that accepts coins since my last trip to Vegas, and even there they were getting rare. 25 years ago...
Eh, found a tiny bit of money and bought a few ounces of silver coins I like today. To heck with all of them, I like my pretty little silver coins. :D
So, the last 30 years that they "manipulated the paper market" they DIDN'T profit then? Why only this year? Why not all other years? I am just...
I agree. "Striped" nickels are fairly common from the 30's to the 50's.
This one doesn't appear to be so, but there are nickels with incomplete mixing of the alloys that gives a nickel "stripes". This is especially...
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