I have never understood the logic of people investing in PM for doomsday scenarios. PM investment makes sense as a hedge to inflation or...
The first design was used for Byzantine, Bulgaria, Venice, and others. I would guess Venice off hand, without getting the books out, especially...
Only reason it is expensive is world growth and construction. Have a major recession in China and India and see how darn fast copper comes down....
The only caveat I would add would be that a lot of PM is ancillary production, basically a byproduct of copper or other mining. This silver is...
Yeah, if areas I collect had the same "super premiums" like most US coins do, I would stop as well. This is a reason I detest slabbing of...
I would not say we have many more collectors really. For some reason US collectors have been very narrow in our collecting interests, possibly due...
If you make a profit above a certain amount you have to pay estimated taxes throughout the year, not just April 15 like other people.
And anyone lucky enough to guess it right will have made a mint. People, (especially people involved in a market, like coin collectors in PM's),...
I would not describe the markets the way you have. I would say (for silver), a flat market from 1962 to 1977, then a overly dramatic runup...
Well, this woul depend in the transaction, type of coins, type of bullion, etc whether this would be a like kind exchange. I could see most...
Well Winged, how do you explain that silver used to have a production/usage deficiency due to industrial usage as recently as 2007, but nowadays...
Mine is more like: http://www.amazon.com/BARSKA-Binocular-Zoom-Stereo-Microscope/dp/B002AQ0R2S/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1299600769&sr=8-4 but...
What is the optical resolution and lighting like with it? I have a professional grade binocular microscope from B&L but of course cannot take...
I would second the recommendation on Hartill. Very nice guy as well. Frank Robinson is a great dealer of Chinese coins in the US, and stocks the...
Yeah, I didn't see anything wrong with the ad. Since Ikes came out they have been calling them silver dollars, due to being the same size as...
Very much agreed Doug, if the IRS catchese you instead of you going to them, they get (rightfully) quite "unreasonable". I never meant my post to...
I don't have my books with me, but you know they are all Ching dynasty by the reverse markings in manchu. The last coin is a machine struck cash,...
Simply as a matter to let you knwo what is going on, not to help you do anything illegal, I will say corporations purchasing records are MUCH more...
Do we know any of this for certain? How will slab plastic hold up over 100 years? This is unknown, and many coins have been put into the "best"...
Just a thought, if you aren't an expert you may wish to invest in a scale and a silver test kit. I like to think I can recognize good silver after...
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