Nice coin from my favorite little perverted emperor. For those not familiar with his "accomplishments", I highly recommend reading about him....
I would definitely agree with you OP to wade slowly in. There is a whole other learning curve to travel with ancients, best to not risk too much...
I would say so. IMHO, TPGers give some leeway to older issues. I have seen bruises on 18th century large cents and similar coins that would have...
That one is not cut, but the Byzantines and the Arab Byzantine definitely used cut coins. In fact, in the late 7th/early 8th centuries they used...
Love the token, though. Gorgeous ship. :)
But, "the market" is a private market. Someone OWNS it, (I happen to own stock in them). Does anyone here buy contracts, options, etc on the...
What size is the ban liang? Size matters. :) To be serious, these were made very similarly over a long period. The major differentiation for...
Good idea Bill. My name is Chris. I have collected US coins for about 35 years, and ancients about 15. Right now, I am concentrating more on...
Very nice style. I like this one a lot.
BTW OP, these grading skills you develop will carry over to all coins. So once you learn one, any other series is very easy, at least within US...
I would say costs more than fakes, huh Matt? :) That is my reason too. Fakes are not a huge concern in this area. Like Matt, I would like to...
And those industrial suppliers who may have 85 million ounces they want to move would have to push the physical market down to $8 if they...
...while a major reason metals go up is from leveraged positions from speculators "buying" more metal than they have the money to pay for....
I was saying you will see a picture of one example only of what a VF can look like. There can be 100 different looking VF's, but a book like that...
I have a really old ANA grading guide. I believe it helped a lot. "Problem" with photo books is they will show you AN example of a F, VF, EF,...
Is its weight correct? Diameter? Even weight and diameter will not prove its correct, but it will prove if its incorrect. The problem with silver...
I hate to be one to jump on a bandwagon, but I agree with mushiness. There simply appears to be not enough crisp detail that the small amount of...
Lucky man to have a son who can read the cyrillic for him. :) I can get by on the Greek usually, having been around enough of these. Anything I...
As you say, time will tell. Personally, IDK about 2012 mintages, especially since they cut sales off early, but I would be willing to say I do...
I agree. No one can really tell if a coin was dipped once properly. Chemically, you are taking off a microscopic layer of metal, so eventually you...
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