Discounting me personally - just so nobody can say it's me being about "me" - just_how_much accumulated experience do you suppose you're talking...
The B is the same hit that caused the gouge in the field to the left, I think. Too bad it isn't 3U2, with the cap break. :) Get it up at...
In my research for this thread I found a similarly designed medal for the New York Assay Office, as well.
The auction houses would put representatives into Thunderdome to get Paddy's coin into their catalogs. 'Tis a fat steak held above slavering dogs....
You have a good point about the failed submissions, but how many failures does it take to add up to significant profit spread across all the...
It should be noted 1789 was the year the Department of the Treasury was chartered by Congress. I found a few examples of this on the Internet -...
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[ATTACH] Two reasons, the proportions of which I'm unable to ascertain: 1) The realities Doug so eloquently posts about are known to expert...
That is probably true, but doesn't make you by definition "wrong." Looked at from only a slightly different angle, TPG's are "pie in the sky"...
"Junk" coins begin at the point where you will no longer pay a numismatic premium for them. None of us get to decide what you consider an...
How can planes fly? You can argue it all you want, but eye appeal is a factor in grading, it has always been a factor in grading, and it will...
This would be a good time to fixate on the numismatic term "patina." Using your two coins as an example, I would figure a strong chance of the...
If I were in your shoes, the first thing I would do - heck it's the first thing I always do - is hit the Heritage Archives to look at fifty or so...
Ultimately, though, they make no money as a group unless they sell to individual collectors. They wholesale to each other - that's why there's a...
Yeah, I'd give 63 money for that. :)
The fields are nice, but part and parcel of grading is the prominence of the marks. Every distraction on this coin is right in your face, and I...
You can think anything you want. I see a tool with perfectly flat, parallel surfaces where they meet, having no sharp edge capable of burring a...
"Appropriate" storage depends as much on atmospheric conditions where you live as anything else. The common factors are to keep them from...
Me? Whatever I saw first that I liked at $100....could be anything from a Lincoln to a Morgan to a Florin or a Catherine the Great 5 Kopeck. There...
Heck, a blank 7070 is almost worth $133 these days. :)
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