ONLY way to go? Um, I disagree with that. Its a way to go, but is assuming that you will be getting better returns with the "low mintage US" part...
I agree. Weird wear pattern as well. The devices are not affected by corrosion, but the fields are? To me, it looks like it was artifically aged.
This is how I knew my main adversary was one other buyer. He was not a shill, though, just another collector who collects what I do, (dang it).
Interesting idea, but I see a couple of problems. How would it know where the physical coin is unless there is a tracking mechanism? I for one...
I agree, nothing to hint its a fake. However, I also agree there is never a guarantee. I have seen fake cast coins of the Ching dynasty. Even if...
The scariest to me would be pretty good fakes in really good fake slabs. A coin in a slab is much harder to prove its a fake, so it only has to be...
Yeah, you always remember the ones that got away. I set up 18 auction snipes a week ago and won NONE, nada, zilch. Same dude overbid me on 12 of...
Yeah, I know. I was lucky las week and got 24 rolls of wire at an auction. Wire is even worst. I still like copper pipes better than that plastic...
This Treasury rule will get repealed as soon as enough of the "old nickels" are gone. They just put it in place to bde time until they figure out...
I thought that was simply a ploy to launch those "old man" rounds and sell them for way too much to all of the suckers who come into their store...
Its a funny thing about "the good old days". As long as I have been a collector, I look back every year and wish I would have bought more then. I...
Personally I think you are better sticking to full ounce coins if it has to be modern. They are by far the most common size, as well as the most...
Both Ukraine, (russia huge miner), and indonesia I heard. Nickel is a very useful metal, I thinking hoarding current five cent pieces is not the...
Or, have been copied so many times we are not sure what the original said. I do not know of a single ancient book that survived intact. All we...
Good questions all. My input for Doug would be even though natural electrum was found in local streams, its clear from Sardis that even from the...
A good book on the subject, from a numismatic perspective, is King Croesus' Gold, Excavations at Sardis. My library is packed up of I would list...
I thought Areich was Amanda.
That comment applies to almost all uncleaned coins. The diggers and buyers are very adept at sorting out these. If you want to clean coins for fun...
Dang it Doug, you beat me to it. Yes, I have seen references shoowing touchstones recovered in ancient sites. In fact, in a coupke of cases they...
That would be a coin of Kyrene. One side will have a head of Libya, the other the head of Ptolemy. The Ptolemaic empire ruled Kyrene for a while....
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