I don't plan to sell any silver coins until it is $100 per ounce. I happen to really like the 64 Kennedy and I wish it was more scarce. The...
There are three B+M dealers near me. Only one is worth going to. Too small a sample to draw any conclusions.
bromac4, During my lifetime, I've been through: - Why American's will never drive foreign cars - Why American's will never recycle -...
I like the concept of carrying a coin in a pocket with other change to remove signs of cleaning. But it seems more practical to start with a...
The trouble is, there are so many coins out there that are screaming "buy me, buy me" and it hurts a lot to walk away from something you need or...
I love cleaned coin questions. But I think they cause brain cramps.
I think you are going to end up with a very nice set of morgans if you choose to collect by date and by "look" or appearance and don't get hung up...
What features give this away as cleaned? I can [sometimes] detect cleaning on silver coins, but I'm not at all sure about copper. Thanks.
While studying and reading about coins is very very [did I mention very] important, this can be a somewhat dull way to enter the hobby since it's...
This was my understanding as well.
P.S. -- It wouldn't surprise me if some of the collectors who are the most confident in their ability to spot counterfeits own the most counterfeits.
For me, the slabs are a necessary evil since I'm more of a casual collector who doesn't want to maintain a laboratory of scales and testing...
It's partly the history and partly the value and sometimes it isn't easy to separate the cause from the effect.
The coin might look okay, but the hole looks like a counterfeit. I've never seen such a perfect hole in a coin and I'm not sure that it's an old...
Nobody. That's why it was a bargain.
cwtokenman, You have just summed up my reasons, that I could never express as eloquently as you, why I'm on the verge of shifting all of my...
I found a 2006 dime on the sidewalk outside of 7eleven. That was pure profit! I bought a half dozen silver eagles for $5 each earlier this...
Maybe we'll see you on Antiques Roadshow, or at Sotheby's with that haul!
I suspect there is an unspoken behind the scenes long term plan to radically change the style of US coinage to remove all of the traditional...
Just keep looking for silver and gold coin bargains. Also, make a more complete study of various tokens [civil war, hard times, and canadian...
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