I am old enough to know that throughout most of the 80's buying gold was a bad idea even in nominal terms. In real terms, since 1980 there has not...
My first thought is find a local coin store. Many of these have world coin boxes, with a low fee each, that you can pick through. This is an...
LOTS of books. Ancient coins books somewhat a specialty of mine. For beginners, Wayne Sayles makes some beginner books. David Sear has the...
Great thoughts as always Doug. The real sad truth of ancient collecting is the most expensive coins, (barring great rarities and the like), are...
You are right of course, in my mind I kind of commingle popularity with scarcity together. Kind of "market scarcity" if you will, all meaning on...
Winged, generically Republican denari used to be $50. This is for a common vf coin. Nowadays its more like $100-$125 from what I see. This is the...
Whatever works, but that is saying this to someone with more financial information than 99% of the US population. If you are comfortable with it...
To me gold is around its historical average in real terms and silver above. While the argument that silver is an "industrial" metal is valid, to...
Fair enough, though I think looking at what you hold does have to be taken into cosideration, at least to me. I don't want to hold all of my...
Winged, as a basic primer to ancients, (glad to see you here), Romans are the most common ancients you will probably find overall. "Greek" has...
Put in the basement if possible, drill the concrete and put in anchors and install bolts through the floor of the safe. If on wood, drill into the...
You are way ahead of the curve considering risk as only decline. Most financial people measure it as volatility. That is the definition of beta,...
I would agree with volatile, and with the fact that silver is historically high. Risk? I am not so sure any PM is the riskiest. Risk is the chance...
But, but, what if CNG has a group of Tyrian shekels you never knew you wanted, or a nice group of LRB just came up for auction, or a rare Sogdian...
Nice vocabulary. :) I appreciate correct usage of above 6th grade grammar. Its very rare nowadays. I assume you are referring to me. I haven't...
When you get through that one, hit us up for more recommendations. That is just the tip of the iceberg. In any collectible field, knowledge is...
I would look at threads in the bullion forum. I get disagreed with a lot over there. I do not know where the top will be, but I think long term...
One thing that can help is to buy books. Research what good books there are for your area, and read them. The Redbook is a good start for US coins...
Yes, I concur with Guy. No question is dumb or will insult us. We are just people who like talking about coins and helping others really. We are...
I know it sucks but putting truly valuable coins in a SD box is a reasonable precaution. I know we all like to have them near us, but be honest....
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