I agree with BU. With safes, there really isn't any substitute for mass and thick steel. You need to have a really heavy safe, mounted into the...
For anyone interested, Bob Reis just did Scotland the last two issues of World Coin News. Pretty interesting articles. What I liek is how he goes...
I would go as far as saying all markets are somewhat manipulated by the market makers. However, those market makers are given special rights in...
Maybe sign up for next year's grading class at the ANA summer seminar? I bet any of us would learn a lot in that course, and you get to spend a...
Btw, here is the thread Rick I was referring to. Anyone is free to look up the article from NN. http://www.cointalk.com/t130595/ Btw I...
Welcome Ejn. Good to have you here. I am a huge fan of both your country and its coins, collecting coins from its entire history from Darius...
I have posted before about how a TPG grader wrote a NN article outlining this entire process, stating that, (to paraphrase), "All TPG now grade...
Yeah, I hate that. Last month I dreamed I put in a ton of bids to a European auction and there was bad weather there the day they held it, so I...
OP, what this dealer shorthand, (no offense LD), means is AU coins are now being graded MS61-63. Your grading skills are not wrong, its the fact...
Best guess is HSN, mail order "special offer", or the like. The 2000's were pretty lucrative for the platers, and it seems they moved a lot of...
Always good to see when they get recovered. There is a big dealer in NYC who was robbed once. I read about it in NN, so when I saw him at CICF...
But Rick, if he is talking a world coin, why would he NOT want to know the Krause value? What if a dealer is asking $800 for a coin Krause lists...
OP, it looks like come sort of fantasy coin. I don't think it has any value. The reason we know it cannot be real is that a cent obverse could...
If you are talking world coins, most start with the Krause catalogs, knowing their prices are usually inflated. If you wish to collect world...
Sales tax on bullion is brutal. Sorry you live in a state that charges it. I guess you are really hoping they don't implement country wide...
Fair enough sir. I guess I was just explaining that your answer of Mexico was really the same as my answer of Spain, same thought but different...
Key to this post, EDUCATION. I know when you first start collecting you wish to buy all of these cool coins you see, but please trust us, OP, we...
I am sure the slabbing companies would take your money.........
Interesting you talk about the UK having "history" when your list doesn't include China and India which had made coins for centuries while Brits...
I would say this may be the best answer. I know it would suck for a new guy to actually have to participate here for a while before they could use...
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