Like JA said, its a book about collectible books. Nothing terribly uncommon. First printing 1947 Redbooks have been worth serious collector money...
I am not sure of an estimate. They were never officially withdrawn, but hoarded due to Gresham's Law. In the 70's you would occasionally find one...
Might as well get your "fancy bookshelf" if you are going to think about buying other SNG titles. All of the ANS titles are that size, as are SNG...
Along with Bill's list, Lake books occasionally has some titles, (right JA?). I search Ebay both under the general book category for coins, as...
Read an interesting article today about "conflict gold". India and Dubai is worried the US and EU might sanction goold products from their...
The exact same argument the op states has been levied against coin collecting the last fifty years. In the seventies the average coin collector...
Yep, it comes from old tea sets, junk silver, rounds, broken or out of style jewelry, etc. I admit junk us is probably slowing down being melted,...
Cloud! Where the heck you been man? You missed a lot of fun.
I was about to say the same. My divorce cost me serious coin money, but my current wife doesn't ask as long as she get to buy her things.
My wife wishes I only had 3' of coin books. Heck, I have added 3' of books since I took that photo that I have posted here on CT before. :(
Peroz coins countermarked of course is from his wars with the Hepthalites. After he finished defeating the Kidarites, (a war his father started),...
Fairly common on Peroz and Khusro II coins. A large percentage of hepthalite coins are actually countermarked sassanid coins, especially of these...
Its a nice xf but i do not see AU at all. Solid xf imo.
It was underpriced. These usually run around $100 for my cheap rear. I am leaving on business, but can look up the countermark in Gobl later this...
I agree. However, that counterstamp is Hepthalite. So overall its fairly similar value, but it is something different than what you were told....
I think its a really cool pick too. Its sad how adverse most US collectors can be of rare coins with issues.
To me there are two categories of "serious": 1. Someone who studies coins intently, knows what they are doing, regardless of the size of their...
Correct, but many found there are not imitative. The loss of gold to India was tremendous. Romans imported much more from India than they...
Mostly true, but i have some from north africa, and one dug up in China. Roman coins travelled the world, especially silver and gold. Silver...
I look at the situation the other way. I see the current situation, which was predicted well in advance, as a schooling on the limitations of the...
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