There are a lot of Ebay sellers with inflated ratings because people are afraid to leave a negative. Dishonest sellers frequently get a free pass...
There may be some benefit to experimenting with ultrasonic cleaning, starting with some inexpensive coins to examine the results. I can't offhand...
Good point about the 10% alloy that isn't gold. Just about any gold coin should be worth the price of an airtite to protect it.
I prefer the regular airtites to the direct fit. The direct fit might look better but I don't like the way they contact the coins.
If that is the case, I think they made the correct decision to eliminate net grading, but continue slabbing cleaned coins. There is no point to...
Now I'm really confused. There are probably hundreds of messages on this forum warning collectors not to buy cleaned coins because they have...
I can just imagine if archeologists had the mentality of the average well informed coin collector. They could open up a 5,000 year old tomb in...
There are many threads on this forum warning against buying cleaned coins under any circumstances -- basically treating them as having little...
I don't think you need to emphasize one over the other. You wanted a saint and bought a nice one. That sounds like a good decision to me. It's...
Danr. It's a multi-dimensional issue, and I'll try to keep it "short," starting at the end and working toward the beginning. I won't comment on...
I probably would buy a one ounce American gold eagle. As an alternative, you could buy about 3 common date Morgan dollars in MS65 condition, or...
I would describe my views on economics as perhaps "unconventional," but not weird. Nothing about the future is certain, so you might turn out to...
Somewhere out there is a very fine line between quitting and "stupid." I quit for 30 years, but still kept an occasional coin that came my way...
I agree that better info can be found without much effort. But it's doubtful that you could come up with very much in the way of credible sources...
There's a lot wrong with this post, but I'll just let it go at that and encourage anyone thinking of taking some action in this area to do their...
I view this as more of a positive than a negative. How many things can you buy today that cost the same amount of money as they did during the...
The way I view it, coins in general and gold specifically are investments in the same class as a money market fund or a foreign currency. They...
I'm not sure I understand what the benefit of a net grade is as long as the grading standard is disclosed on the coin. If they just provide a...
Were all of the 1999 1/10th and 1/4th ounce uncirculated coins made with the proof die error, or just a few? I wasn't aware of this.
crystalk - Consider this: as I write this, the spot price of gold is $470.40 and 100 shares of GLD representing 10 ounces of gold can be purchased...
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