thanks! I was worried that he made me look to grumpy. I never realized how surly he looked until recently.
You make a good point ernie, but I think - in the end - it amounts to one of many avenues of justification. I, myself, came to the realization...
could be. I'm not a CPA, but I think assets are only taxable if you sell them for a profit - then you have capital gains tax...
oh if I had a nickel....
A lot of things fit into this catergory, by this sort of broad definition - coins, art, pottery, your house, your car, even your electric razor...
I think I can finally say it: those are coins that I hope get a regular cleaning... god, I crack me up.
it appears to list carlos III, as well. I think I got a decent picture - at least the best I could come up with. Like I said before, it isn't...
last week, at auction, some coins came up in a little zip lock bag... not seeing it before it caught my interest, and I ended up buying the small...
I'm in! http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=3171
That's something I have always asked, myself. I suppose it cuts to the quick, and reduces the haggling over who thinks what grade fits (to some...
They would tell you, I believe, that all grading is subjective, and based upon what they believe is a point system that qualifies for the specific...
If your age were doubled die, it would be a rare find, indeed...
A lot of people, new to the forum, probably don't even know what the sticky threads are. Are they likely to read the tutorial, if they haven't...
hmmmmmm.... did you have to prove that the plasma was not stolen?
I think they are wonderful coins - one of my favorite reverse designs. I have two myself (four if you include two 1915 restrikes). Maybe I'm...
That seems odd to me... why would anyone go through the trouble of faking an austrian ducat? they are not particularly rare, nor awfully expensive.
the old hand scale... is it ever wrong?
I have only heard that coins were invented for purposes of easing trade, myself. I find the alternative explinations that you offered to be very...
I learned a great deal of chinese in college, however there are so many characters it would seem a person would have to study many years in order...
Can anyone tell me what they think of this coin? I know the pictures are probably not the best, but it appears that it is somehow a defective...
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