Good for her. I buy my wife all of the Thai gold she wants, as it's purer and much cheaper than gold in the US. Problem is, much of the price...
Heck yeah they do. Unless you are selling pm, everyone should be rooting for cheaper and cheaper pm, right? If you are a stacker, why wouldn't you...
Thanks for the post CZ. I have a friend who has a table at the South St Paul show, so I show up there occasionally. Most of the time I just wander...
Nice post sir. I agree with your take on the situation. The real key is knowledge and thorough inspection. You are 100% correct AT is a common...
Yeah, my wife would skin me alive. I already have a few bags of wheat cents she is unhappy enough with. Hoarding coins is all fine and dandy,...
He, along with a couple of major collectors in my coin club, simply were discussing the effect of the sheik's purchases on the upper end Greek...
Remember when I was made fun of here on CT relaying the whole story about "the Sheik" and his affect on the market? Man, I heard from Kerry...
Common date, circulated Peace dollars are simply bullion with a higher than average premium. When silver was $4 I had to pay $6 for them, they...
I hope you do not feel that way sir. I hope we can both get along with each other here. I sincerely do not wish to drive any participant away from...
Well, in regards to coin collecting, what you are advocating then is just buying a few coin versus many, since most people do not have unlimited...
My main concern with the "investment" side of it is basically what Doug said earlier. For quite a while ALL major areas of art has shown strong...
Yes, or a closer analogy would be the Roman and byzantine practice in the provinces of cutting coins in half to make change. For cash coins that...
It all gets back to how these were used Doug. Remember all cash were stored on, and mainly traded hands by, strings. Strings anywhere from 100 to...
Not just lately Doug. I have bought group lots of them a decade ago, (like 100 coins or more). I actually did a presentation on Wang Mang and his...
No, it's not. Chinese Cash have a some unique looks to them depending on the issue. Not one coin here to me appears to have bronze diseaes....
Rovert Tye wrote a wonderful writeup of this leader literally 1900 years before his time. I believe Bob Reis had it posted on his website.
It's an important coin. Basically this is the prototype for the next 2000 years what would be "money" in China.
Oh yeah. Sometimes I just pull out a book at random. Luckuly I have about 700, but sometimes its something like one of the KM catalogs and just...
Of COURSE it will sir. I will absolutely guarantee everyone here silver will be over $100 someday. However, that does not mean anything. If a...
You do know most people here have no idea what the heck a "quid" is, right? ;)
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