Of course, they would have been better off still if they'd bought bullion at a 3-4% premium.
I hope you're right, but I don't expect cash to hold on long enough for a denomination shift to happen.
I think the historic range is just that -- history. I can't say that the gold-silver ratio won't ever return to that level, but I don't see any...
Correct. That's why I broke out the prices separately for the gold commemoratives (same composition and weight as 1837-1933 half eagles, 0.242 ozt...
Yep. I don't remember the technical details, but it struck me as kind of silly and hopeless. As far as I know, photographing such bills still...
It's hard to keep up with gold prices these days, but melt value for $5 gold pieces is over $730. $750+ for the quarter-ounce piece. I keep doing...
There's been extensive discussion and planning for Semiquincentennial [yes, I know, even spell-check can't read that] coinage. I was going to say...
The ones that went for $2500 when gold was $2000?
Meant to circle back to this earlier. What's your definition of the difference between "speculation" and "investment"?
I may have to pick one of those up one day, if only because the spot it commemorates is just a few miles from my first home.
The "bubble about to pop" voices are hard to hear over the "new normal" voices and the "still being artificially suppressed" voices. More likely,...
I still have some old Red Books that show a range of prices for "better date" silver Roosevelt dimes. I remember shelling out extra for the 1955...
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Tech makes for iffy examples. I mean, how many people had handheld supercomputers in the 1960s and 1970s? Zero. Now, it's a couple of billion...
And even then, it only goes into remission. It's never really cured.
I just can't seem to break my habit of buying things when the price gets dropped ("on sale"), rather than when the price has just been jacked up.
The ring, the finger, or the spouse?
Oh, I thought we were looking for photos of miserable Morgans...
I'm no Chinese coin expert, but I'm pretty sure that (a) that's not MS61, and (b) PCGS does a lot better job than that with the typography on...
The reason coin collectors don't like cleaning is that once a coin has been improperly cleaned once, it's damaged forever. Rubbing a coin leaves...
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