I simply am addicted to buying coins. Ebay allows me to feed my habit any time, any where, so basically is equivalent to having a 24 hour crack...
How do you feel Jim about your method of copper versus mine of fresh silver? Is copper a better protectant than silver?
I have heard of a book called "Spanish Milled Dollars". Is it any good?
I would guess 103,842. :)
Ok, thanks Doug. Were the round ones clipped from metal or cast? They appear clipped, which is why I thought maybe the square ones would have been...
I think your idea, (sorry I did not comment on it earler), was great man. I don't have a lot of expereince with these boxes but they seem fine and...
I do too. I know Detecto sometimes is way too absolute in his opinions, but I just don't think that means everyone needs to pile on with mean...
Lol, sorry man. That is the problem with the internet, sometimes its hard to pick up on things like that. :(
I just have always thrown in "fresh" silver into boxes of coins I wish to not tone. The coins are in holders, and the sacrificial silver is raw. I...
Respect it? Why? I respect no censorship save anti-harrassment or vulgarity. Those are only used to make the discussion civil. I truly reprehend...
I agree. Way too white. Honestly, I have CBHD's that look about this good, and if I saw this one in a dealer's case I would not buy it. I own one...
I do similar to Jim and have had good luck. Reminds me I need to buy some new junk silver to throw in with my better coins, I am sure the old ones...
These have been faked since God was a high school freshman. I cannot tell easily from the photograph if the mintmark is correct, since they were...
Aren't the square shaped ones earlier than the round ones? I thought I read before that Indian coins started by cutting strip, but after a while,...
I understand that is WAS done, but I thought by this time, due to all of the scandals regarding trials leaving the mint to dealers, that it was...
I thought they never made it to the cashier where the public had access to them. The $10's did for a short while, but the US always have contended...
I think it was easier to swap a gold coin for a trial and other things, as well as buy errors. THese simply weren't a big deal. However, they have...
Detecto, many of us have posted how non-coin auctions are full of damaged, low grade coins on purpose. THe auctioneer buys them since he knows his...
I hear what you are saying, but I look at it in reverse. The beauty of ancients is YOU decide what a "set" of anything is. ANonymous bronzes? You...
What most do is simply measure the dollar versus a basket of currencies, and then measure how much the price increase or decrease in PM is due to...
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