Heck of an answer. You have to remember a "coin dealer" is not a universal description. You have many who simply, like Lindedad states, make their...
I will work on getting photos for you Doug. He even had double struck obverse and reverse coins, the reverse being the most common. The hammer...
True, some Celtic, Himyarite, and Sogdian coins are found scyphate. At least these are the three other cultures I personally own scyphate coins...
I know we disagree some on this subject Doug, but I would also point out that the extreme thinness of the flan also could lead to the doubling....
Collecting coins for 30+ years, US coins for the first 20 years, and I just now created a US mint account. My kid better appreciate this. :)
Well if they are body bagging that half, then good luck finding many they will slab. While I agree it was dipped, so were the vast majority of...
Yes, always. Same with the first time dipping a coin. Anytime you want to play doctor on a coin do it on circulation coinage first, since I...
Well the specific market I am extremely well familiar with everyone knows the players. I will not name them here, but its a familiar name that...
Well, they would not have been much smaller than AE3's in the 4th century, so there was precedent. As to your reading, yes that was the...
I would add a maybe superfluous generality that since the MS 60-70 market is simply not developed for most world coins, I am not sure how much a...
But, I am not sure this is any worst than the perversion that happens with the other half of agricultural commodities where maybe .1% of the...
Because they were thin coins than you could bend and break with your fingers if they were not scyphate. Putting the bend in the coin significantly...
That is a better struck reverse! I wasn't trying to pick on your first coin Randy, I see weaker reverses on these all of the time, many times...
Doug's reply should be stickied.
I don't. For an average foreign coin, I would agree. For a chinese lunar coin, especially a dragon, I do not. The dragon in one of the top three...
Agreed, cool pickup. I always wish these coins had stronger reverses. It seems the Romans weren't as talented striking large bronzes as the...
But, keys are only key if you assume collectors wish to collect the entire set. Absent that, they are simply scarcer issues but not worth nearly...
I agree. I don't see anything obviously wrong. I have about 30 of these that are real, and about 6 fakes, so if yours is a fake its better quality...
Great points. I like to think I make good buys, and I even buy lots at times. However, I have never sold a coin in my life, (except once some...
By "demand decline" I am assuming you are simply talking new silver demand decline. I very well could deinvestment of silver coins and bullion by...
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