One main reason foreign gold can sell for less is less people "collect" them by date, and it's harder to authenticate. Dealers are not gods, they...
If for gold investment, all you want is certainty it is real. As long as it's a recognized name, TPG will not matter. The differences come in the...
Heck, I will admit I am jealous of many coins here. @Alegandron has a Shapur I tetradrachm I would love to own. :)
First, I am glad others are telling Donna just to keep it so it's not just me. Second, @Nathan B. , I miss every coin I have ever sold. I don't...
Legal tender is simply what is decreed by the government as legal money. In the US, that includes what you mention. Coinage acts declare that the...
:) Um yeah, there at times have been remarks on the other forums. Like I said, I don't get mad, preferring to see humor in hobby banter, but I...
Fair enough you have personal experience in SENDING them to melters. I knew some dealers who BOUGHT the same coins. :) Many times "melters" are...
Btw, I think you and Doug are misinterpreting "melt". A dealer over 30 years ago told me almost no coins get melted, (especially US), since they...
Might be interesting to use for ancients, but the best ancient fakes nowadays are melting down real ancients to make the planchets. They got...
I would guess this is a core of a fourree. They would make planchets of silver coated base metal and strike them. Many such coins the silver fell...
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