The entire coin market goes in cycles. Old commemoratives were hot in the 80's. They will be again. I have to say, (sorry Green as I know you...
My vote if you had to choose amongst those two would be coin A. I was like you when I started and didn't mind a coin with a little damage for more...
No, we take delivery from markets that occur daily. This market price is then used to price the entire market, even though only 1/10th of 1...
Exactly. Remember that people CAN take delivery if they pay all up front and specify it. IF silver were really worth $100 an ounce, if industry...
I believe there should simply be a law prohibiting any real person on a circulating coin or note. Let the artists come up with new designs...
All I can say sir is the obverse looks like Madonna and Child, so I was suspecting Hungarian, but the reverse is wrong. I wish I were of more...
So you believe these lead pieces were effectively private quadrans or such struck due to Rome not economically being able to strike such small...
Regarding whether the price of silver HAS to go up long term, I would say yes since we are in a economic systems where the preferential movement...
I would have to study mine at home first to have an opinion. I have not seen them worn before. My first thougth would be the shen is a little off,...
Well, speaking for ancient collectors, the US wishes that their coins had 1/1,000 the imagination and artistry that the Romans had. They wish they...
Good answer. My opinion is that is was near the tail end of the "roll hoarding" craze, and while people were piling up rolls of halves and...
Hmm, maybe a lot of Byzantines for $40, (50 coins, so that wasn't bad right there), but had an Ostrogothic bronze in it worth at the time maybe...
Yeah, we can be picky about that. "Do not clean" is very good advice for the general public. However, ancient collectors take flack from other...
The Venetian has an ancient coin store in it. Its overpriced, and designed for non-collectors, but still its neat to go see. The same store is in...
I tell you what, if that pic doesn't make you sit up straight, try to scan what is in there, and make you wish you could run your fingers through...
Mine is dated about 2002. Its current enough for me. My main beginning source for US coins is Breen anyway, and its about 25 years old now.
You are right I very well could be wrong. If you are right and this is the interpretation of the law, there might as well not be any law since its...
Well I have both types, the long skinny ones and the ones that are rounder and look like mushrooms. I was told by a dealer the aztecs used arsenic...
Yeah, but you are an oddball collector even amongst ancient collectors. :) I mean, how many people in the world collect tessarae???? I actually...
He admitted it AFTER I questioned their authenticity. Before I questioned them, there was no notice whatsoever that they were fakes. Not on his...
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