Buy PM for investment, but don't overdo it. Buy coins for the love of history, artistry, and culture. Coins are a pretty bad, illiquid...
Nice site. I would say one thing though, the Barker book is just a fantastic book, full of a lot more information than just a catalog of coins. I...
Not disagreeing much, like I said per country can vary. I would say, though, that most of those things you mentioned were pretty darn close to...
Yes, Northern SOng especially with all of the various writing styles can be a very fun pursuit. My specialty has always been earlier cash and the...
Unfortunately not really. They were massed produced by the millions. Even today you can buy a string of these for about $.30 a piece, and even at...
Btw OP, I would also tell you to never have done what your father in law had done. You shouldn't need to test for silver content on a coin, since...
Yep. Froggycoin gave you a better attribution OP, I don't have access to Hartill Qing or his Cast Chinese coins here at work.
Ching dynasty cash coin. You can always tell since they have chinese characters on the obverse, and manchu script on the reverse. Emperor Kao...
My only point sir is there are, (at least in the states), certain series I believe you would be lucky to find one in a million coins to be real. I...
If using the word "modern" to delineate more current coins versus other machine struck coins, (not comparing them versus medieval or ancients), I...
Up about as much the last two days as my after tax portfolio, (aka "fun money"). Silver has really been acting lately like a stock with a beta of...
Ok, call me a cynic, but I will lay a $10 bill down that this was a plant. They wished to make this "coin" to sell for profit, so they contacted a...
You are like me, I don't even collect US really any more but always ask for the "weird stuff". :)
Maybe they have a special PM lover's T-shirt, " I went to the CME and got fed a bunch of BS how silver is not manipulated, but at least got this...
Greed is one of the penultimate human frailties we all fall prey too. For me it started when I was 8 believing newspaper ads for coins....
My main reply sir would be that leverage cuts both ways, and leverage has been used forever on the buy side as well. To be fair, if you wish to...
Too many, (including myself), take things too personally. Its the internet, there will always be trolls, no sense getting mad and screaming at a...
No one can see my gold, silver, rare coins, or other wealth either. That is because it is either in a SDB or in a brokerage account. ;) Its cool...
But not the way its set up. You have to understand the market was created after centuries of seeing how markets are all too easily manipulated by...
I would say yes and no. The one great advantage of having lots of silver contracts is that it makes it nearly impossible for someone to try to...
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