I agree premiums are up. I am unsure if its due to normal basis adjustment due to declining spot or something bigger. The availability has been...
I cannot remember if I have a Justinian. I know I don't have a forward facing bust gold of his like yours AN.
Do you have Joe Cribb's book on sycee? Its the standard for the field. Personally I would only trust respected dealers well known to US...
Tiberius is expensive because of the whole tribute penny thing. Nice coin OP. A silver Gaius truly is a scarce thing.
Both the low prices and the huge physical spread were in place long before the VW nonsense. With the new low cost mines in South Africa opening...
Agree to disagree. This is an attractive issue. Put some country's name on it so it's a coin, and it's a $25 coin and they would sell more. But we...
They are milk spot from the mint. Clean hands, handling coins by the edges, are always safe. I actually believe cotton gloves are dangerous to...
OP, it really means safely parking your cash on the sidelines was safer than investing in stocks. That happens fairly regularly, but its a timing...
For those countries who are UK derived, I understand your point. Collectors in general, though, simply prefer coins not rounds. Even though we...
I have to say its the most attractive of that series. I would have more interest in them if they were coins.
I would be worried about condensation as well. Water is never good to put on the surface of a coin. Everything bad that can happen to a coin gets...
Doesn't look much like her. Here is her portrait coin of hers I own. [ATTACH]
Its very true that weight can be a critical factor in Sogdian coins. Problem is most people do not realize this, and its not obvious from...
Maybe you are right. I have just noticed pure silver tones faster than new copper, but maybe my observations were biased. I still throw...
Considering Song dynasty coins are worth about a quarter a piece, and this is by far NOT the largest cache ever found, not really. :) Imagine if...
But then you only have something AS REACTIVE in the bag, not more reactive. You want something more reactive than the coin you are protecting to...
I would say similar except to store with fresh silver coins like ASE's instead. The ASE will start to tone if something is going wrong, and its...
No issue TIF. Everyone has coins that speak to them, and coins that don't. That is what is great about this hobby, we all don't have the same...
Nice coin. The Cash type coins without the sogdian calligraphy are definitely scarcer than the ones with the long calligraphy. Here is a paikend...
:D Ask anyone here. I talk about Sogdia as much as I dare, I am sure most ancient collectors here are sick of me talking about it, (except for AN...
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