When I read threads like this one, it leaves the impression that so many people have so many ideas about so many different methods to "safely"...
You can only find out their true worth in an auction market such as Ebay. If it's just you and the dealer, one-on-one, he'll always try to beat...
Maybe the owner didn't need the hole in the coin anymore; or maybe he needed the hole for something else and removed it. ;-)
It wouldn't be my decision. I would try to visit all of the coin clubs that I could locate within about 20 miles to see what the members collect....
It seems a little steep to charge 1 ASE just for an opinion to a customer who already paid 1.5 ASEs for the slab.
That's a difficult concept for many people to accept or understand. Silver and gold have been low for so long that it sometimes seems like prices...
If you can find a local coin dealer you trust, you might be able to trade the coins you don't want for the coins you need. You would only have to...
Simple? Sterling bars are frequently measured and sold in grains.
I don't think it would take much cherrypicking. I think a collector could have put away just about any MS or lightly circulated coin obtained...
The words natural and artificial don't seem technically correct. Maybe toning should be either intentional or accidental.
I agree. Collecting is part history, part geography, and part economics as well as everything related directly to the individual coin. Current...
It's easier to learn to love toning than to fight mother nature to prevent it.
It might be a good idea to run some numbers before making a blanket statement like that. $1 grows to about $18 over 60 years at 5%. It grows to...
Very bored. I don't collect modern circulation coins at all, and will only collect modern commemoratives at bullion coin prices. Some of the...
I'm not quite that optimistic, but generally I think his facts are correct. I think there was a US Geological survey report a couple of years ago...
I like very worn or damaged or holed coins that are rare. It's nice to be able to own an example of the coin at low cost regardless of condition....
I admit that there is a very good chance you will be correct and I'll be wrong because that's the way it has always worked. It just doesn't seem...
Adam, I think it looks too much like a pigeon.
I've always said that coins should be viewed as a cash substitute and inflation hedge, not comparable to an investment in a business or the stock...
My point, which I admit is difficult for me to adequately explain, is that it seems that most people have it in their minds that "junk silver" or...
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