It looks like someone spilled glue on it or some other liquid substance. Edit: referring to first coin
The other thing that is inevitable is inflation, so the bias in change is always upward over the long run.
Since the task of selling the coins will fall to my kids someday, and since they aren't active collectors, I usually purchase slabbed coins if...
I probably have more old ANACS slabs than any other, but I think the NGC slabs I have are probably the best.
There is no problem with wanting nice examples of many different types of coins. Just recognize that in the end, you won't have any sort of...
It looks okay but I would be concerned that this type of toning is damaging the coin.
You probably should just be more careful about the way you word things. You could get the same point across by noting that this coin, like many...
troodon, I'm not a lawyer but you may have said it yourself -- it doesn't meet their standards. Well, my guess is that Ebay has no written...
I have several of the angels. They are "lucky angel" or "guardian angel" tokens sent in the mail by some religious organizations seeking...
I don't know how Ebay can get away with discrimination among TPGs unless one has been convicted of fraud. The situation will probably last only...
DGS is taking dead-aim at the weaknesses in the top tier TPG business models. I congratulate them for their astute observations about needs that...
I consider myself a casual collector. I enjoy coins and have learned a lot from reading and from CoinTalk, but not enough to have reached an...
Regarding rule two. When will gasoline go back to $0.299 where it was when I was in high school? When will silver go back to $1.29? When will...
On St. Patrick's Day this year the intraday high price for gold was above $1000.
I was going to answer, but then I realized you wrote "force" and not "farce."
Thanks, that's helpful. I'm not really surprised by anything you wrote.
I'd be pretty satisfied if I bought both of them for VF money.
I can't resist asking... Which coins are the easiest for you to resell and, therefore, are likely to be the best for the average collector to...
I would say AU for the 23 and EF for the 22. Peace Dollars are hard to grade from photos and scans.
I think you are exactly right. Metal prices have moved up a lot over the past 7 years, and this might have made investing in coins look easier...
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