I have to agree with Sylvester on this one; the steel blue/grey toning looks best on a coin. The picture of the rainbow toned coin above is not...
I would like to hear more feedback on Harlan J. Berk from anyone who has used them. I checked out their website and it is impressive. They carry...
I'm just offering my amateur opinion, along with a warning to the reader that I get these things wrong more often than I get them right. Maybe I...
I would return it because of the suspicion that assigning higher valuations to errors like this could be a passing fad among collectors, and the...
I have a personal rule number 4 learned from experience. It is meant for me, not anyone here, obviously. 4. If you are buying a coin and think...
But now I'm thinking back and trying to remember. I'm not sure that I found a Franklin in those rolls or just a 40% halve. Oh well, doesn't...
That's a great find! I'm usually thrilled if I find a worn 40% silver half.
I like air-tites a lot and can't think of a better way to store valuable raw coins and bullion coins. I also have a few of the ones with the loop...
I might be able to top that. I went into a bank and asked for rolls of half dollars. The teenage bank teller looked at me funny and said, "You...
Tell them the dog ate it. It used to work with homework.
I guess it's just supply and demand. The price of a coin with 1 million specimens and 10 million collectors can be higher than the price of a...
Does the lack of a grade guarantee [or anything else] make ANACS a company to avoid when buying slabbed coins? I have a couple of their coins.
Cornish, To answer your original question... You did it in the pursuit of knowledge. Thomas Edison tried about 10,000 substances before he...
I'm not sure why the ANA doesn't think they are in a strong enough position to SET standards rather than report what they are. If not the ANA,...
Congratulations for figuring out how to legally rob the bank!
There is no such thing as a bad silver dollar. They are nice, big chunks of silver and history. A VF Morgan is still beautiful to me.
I'm pretty paranoid [ask anyone, but let me know what they say :) ] but not enough to be worried about the government confiscating gold again....
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