Agreed, and not enough lay investors believe/understand this. When the market broke in 1980 people were trying to sell and getting offered $5/$7...
Fiscal issues can lead the public to worry about hyperinflation. Hyperinflation would be a direct cause, fiscal issues that may cause the public...
Very little of anything I have ever read here would reach the level of libel even enough to plausably bring a case to court. If someone went out...
Any precious metal or other commodity store has its place in a portfolio. I bought silver years ago because it was very cheap historically and as...
As other have said, tarnish is the same as toning. Toning is used to make it sound better. :) Silver at any purity level will tarnish unless...
I agree that the cent needs to go, and the half is obsolete due to people not wishing to carry such large coins. If we were going to do it,...
Agree with a pretty bad fake. Looks like either an apprentice or retouched badly from a transfer die. Not sure it helps, but Chinese fakes...
My prognistication, FWIW, is that inside China there are massive problems with state banks hiding debts, propping up failing industries, etc. We...
Cloud, you are completely correct, (or at least I completely agree with you), concerning your last post. In a traders mentality, "going with the...
I saw a fake Kennedy once. A dealer had it in his black box, purchased in a group of silver. The date was 64, but it was a cast fake. Doug is...
Cloud, being "correct" everywhere in between? You really believe that? Do you think dot com investors were "correct in 1998? Housing speculators...
I hear the reserve currency of choice in the world of smugglers, etc are now Euros due mainly to the fact of 500 Euro notes. This is worth almost...
It cuts both ways as well. I agree certain coins can easily get hot and make book values way too low, but I remember in the 90's that British...
For 100 year old coins? No, the expectation is not that they have all been cleaned. 200 years old it gets much harder, and most ancients have been...
Lol of course. I pursue so more esoteric areas of collecting at times, and right now when I am buying even one more collector really ups my costs....
Cloud makes an excellent point about your idea of holding to the ratio. This is a very bad idea, just like portfolio balancing. THe difference...
While its different, I would not invalidate it. I buy there all of the time, I set snipes up days ahead of time. While this is somewhat different,...
I try, (when I am rational), to try to remember that Ebay is effectively a 3 second auctioneer. Everything up until then is fluff, but it still...
Erm, if you do, YOU are the one buying the gold. Reverse dowry in those cultures.
I know the feeling though Marshall. I found a rare BMC book on Ebay about 3 months ago, and it stayed at .99 for most of the auction, moving up to...
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