Not a fan of that "patina" on the Mon. I can't tell about the caligraphy much because of it, but Japanese usually had excellent workmanship. If...
Yes, you should. I wish I would have buckled down more and bought nice, high grade coins back when they were cheap. High grade coins tend to...
Me either. At our last ancient coin club meeting, our one member who would have coins you and Joe would drool over, and operate in the same market...
I agree with JA said in his posts. Myself, I do not think wear was a factor. In modern coins, the coin has to get down to VG to have any noticable...
Good answers to your posts OP. I agree with them as well. Another factor to ackowledge is simply randomness. I see it many times. One time two...
Doug, you are giving this credit to Charles. What about his Merovingian forebearers? Why are these leaders overlooked? I find this fascination...
There is a rumor that a hoard of about 400,000 ancient Jewish coins was found about a decade ago, and the US dealer who bought most of it. In...
Some of Europe. I think the Portugese, Spanish, Southern Italians, English, and some others might object to such a characterization. I like...
I agree. I bought a hoard through G&M, (small one), of Byzantines obviously deposited at the same time. The Maurice Tiberius' stopped at year 8,...
I am not understanding your question sir. Are you saying you can buy coins from a hoard, and asking from that hoard which coins to buy? Pretty...
With silver being down, I don't see how selling in a lower market to take advantage of gold in a lower market is advantageous. Even though I am...
So you are saying the metal missing from above got scraped off, and folded back below? If so, there should be evidence on the coin of this under...
Die lamination? Looks like the die lost a piece and it folded back. Weird.
Yes it is. I lost my taste/patience for it. If I weren't such a damn hoarder I would sell off the couple of thousand uncleaned coins I just moved...
I was justing saying in generalities sir. I was trying to just explain that even if you may be rigth in your area of the country that every single...
Ok, let's accept everything you said sir. Let me accept every premise. STILL there are deals to be had. Why? Because not all coins are alike. You...
True sir, but then you are also taking the PM market risk. The reason they constrict is collectors are not willing to pay the pm premium. Your...
What is the cut of Ebay? 10%? Cheaper than traditional, but still pretty steep. Sure, vest pocket dealers have always tried to make some money,...
Fine. Sorry if you believe I mischaracterized "almost always" as always. Still, your thread was pretty dogmatic that collectors will ALMOST ALWAYS...
Like I said, it will always be honest differences of opinion. I never said there was chaos, but there was massive change and decentralization...
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