To be honest I spent 5 seconds looking at the photo. The color is that of the fakes coming out of China. It is the "old coin, trying to look old,...
No, not all of us, only US collectors. Somehow this logic got put into place here, and then just got twisted around like you described. One of the...
Me too. :)
Officially, I believe the Columbian half was the first. I thought the mint just supplied them to the expo at face value. The mint did...
Sorry that I am not clear, or that you believe I need to take an economics class. Its kind of sad since I used to teach macro and international...
How about just make a new system grading the level of detail remaining on the coin versus a perfect example? Does it matter to you if the missing...
No, thank you for your service sir. You were in a real war, I was just in the Gulf War in 1991 and took a little going through the berm. I was...
I would be very surprised if Scott actually successfully defended such a position. A company can make a claim all they want, but actual...
Perfect answer. Attributions as to a catalog are always allowed as fair use of the source document. These reference books are printed for the...
ASE's will probably always have a numismatic demand since there are so many US collectors, the design is nice, (I wish the US could do something...
You should buy the book, "The Cherrypickers Guide". Its not too expensive, lists all of these, and gives you a numbering system to list them as....
Here is a fun little gold quiz I found. With all of the debate of investing in PM lately, I thought it was a pretty good quiz with some good...
This made me remember a letter in this weeks NN that made me wince. The author was commented on the new proof sets, and stated, "they are nice,...
The N in cents might be easiest to see. Its harder and takes a trained eye to see them on circulated coins. Nice pickup. My favorite always was...
Both can be caused by monetary effects, but the effect is the same. Suppose there was a major war in the middle east. Monetary policy has not...
I have always advocated that US coins go to ancient coin grading rationale, (part of the reason I collect ancients now). The DETAIL of the coin...
I have seen thousands of these. The weak T is related to metal flow that also affects PLUR. The whole area is just short of metal, so short of an...
But what was the price of a double cheeseburger, (now $1.19), before the promotions? Five years ago they were about $1.80, and big macs $3, so...
Really? Slabs have been around, what, 25 years at best? I have seen copper coins survive red for 70 years, and then turn brown within a couple of...
I don't have one handy, but what is the obverse design opposite of the PLUR? Is it the bust or shoulder?? That area is so systematically bad that...
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