There is a lot of merit in what you say. Here is the other side. I try to practice a value-centered approach to collecting. It's sort of a 2/3...
I like the book that Coin World puts out because it contains "prices" for more grades than the Red Book. This makes it useful to identify the...
I was at the bank so I thought I'd pick up a bunch of half dollar rolls to search. Fortunately, the bank wasn't busy. Well, the tellers looks...
longnine, I completely agree, but you expressed the idea perhaps better than I have in the past. If the "highest grade" used to be 2X, and...
Just to jump in here... The original post indicated that the set would be held for many years. So this is really a request to predict the...
Smon - It seems to be a huge problem to me. Two of the three dealers near me clean and grossly over-grade their inventory. The one dealer can't...
I've never resolved the issue of combining safety with display. So I've gone with safety. The highest quality coins are in a safe deposit box at...
This is just about the same conclusion I've been coming to recently, so I'm very happy to read it from a more knowledgeable source. It's a...
I noticed above in the greysheet link that ANACS scored significantly lower than PCGS, NGC, and ICG. I've seen this before. Yet people here...
They are good looking Morgans, Stop. It's hard not to love them, it's such a great looking coin in any grade. You're off to an excellent start.
Grading uncirculated coins is very difficult for me. It would take really superior pictures and a good narrative to go with it for me to catch...
You can occasionally buy old cleaned gold coins for less than bullion value, and certainly less than a modern bullion coin. Of course, it's...
I'll bet that if they turned in 10, they really had 11. :)
cherrypicker, I think I bought every one of my maple leafs from Ebay. The simple rule I used was that I would pay no more than $2.50 per coin...
Speedy said it best. Collect coins, not sets. I have one complete set, silver eagles, no big deal. Other than that I buy/collect certain things...
I'm not sure that there is much downside to buying slabs other than they tend to cost a bit more. The positives greatly outweigh the negatives in...
This continued to bother me so I checked it out for anyone who is interested. While gains from the sale of coins are considered "capital gains,"...
gdjmsp, I don't disagree with anything you said. The strategy is based more on an analysis of silver than of how the coin market presently...
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I have to throw in one more editorial comment... Harlan Berk sure has a lot of cleaned gold coins for sale at pretty cheap prices, no doubt...
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