Btw, was @Amanda Varner going to do a map for us showing CTer's where are favorite CT dealers were at? I apologize, but even though I know dealers...
Lol, I know. I guess I have a dry sense of humor. :D
Really? Having a live stream of OTHERS being able to have a great time, buy some great coins, and generally get all "coin happy"? No thanks, if I...
I love the market is sweeping away all of the pm pumpers, hucksters, and the like. Now is the period in which I can slowly build my pile up some...
Probably somewhere. Actually, I am pretty sure I have quite a bit of this type of collectible in piles. I buy quite a few group lots, and these...
I had one of those 1976 counterstamped cents and board when I was young.
Well we should all have lunch or coffee Friday or Saturday. I will be around then if anyone wants to chat. Maybe all hang out in front of Charmy's...
Yes sir. I freely admit the market was a scary place for a novice before. Lots of shady dealers, overgraded coins, etc. For novice collectors do I...
Let me be clear. I loved ANACS. I love the idea of authentication services. I tell everyone who will listen that they should never buy a "key"...
There is always a high danger that what you found is a slug and not a authentic unstruck blank. We would need pics to help you more sir.
-9 here this morning, and it was 82 in Orlando yesterday. It is supposed to be "cooler" and only about 70 there most of the week.
The good ones of today can be tough. All made before say 2005 aren't hard to spot due to the idea I expressed. Real coins have a certain life to...
Kind of hard for it to be "us versus PCGS". Since these refuse to follow ANA grading standards, by definition the PCGS grade of something is...
Yeah, but I am betting those dealers are trading short term gain for long term customers. I know once I receive one or two coins that the seller...
They probably had a quarterly earning call they needed to hit, so went back to the whole "coin collector piggy bank". Need to boost profits? No...
I agree. Chinese Cash collectors have a name for this, it's called the shen of the coin. Real coins have this artistic balance, fakes do not. The...
Not because it's standardized sir, but because they are governments. It's get back to the very definition of what a coin IS, a piece of metal...
So let me ask you this, why should chopmarks be treated differently than a US merchant stamping a coin, or a young man creating a love token out...
I don't know the specific answer to your question today. Chopmarks have had a weird go of it, from being about the worst damage on a Trade dollar...
They are X's, not swastikas. Swastikas are not common on Roman coins at all, especially imperial ones. They are very common on central Asian and...
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