You and me both, brother. I get the idea that it confirms the coin is purely worn, but otherwise problem-free -- but does a green bean mean it's...
Back today, and yep, nearly every table is occupied. More attendees, too. Off to see if anyone will offer better than 18x for my friend's silver...
It's actually the other way around -- the corrosion takes oxygen (and possibly traces of other gases) out of the atmosphere of the case, and locks...
And if you just leave your collection to your heirs, they won't be needed. The notion that capital gains are based on non-inflation-adjusted...
Besides, first they'd have to fish it up from the bottom of the lake. ;)
Huh -- according to PCGS, these are usually heavily circulated. And I suppose as a non-government strike it shouldn't really be called a Half...
Back now. Crowds were kind of slim in mid-to-late afternoon; one vendor said there was a lot of traffic from the public in the morning. I saw at...
Heading out ("like a herd of turtles", as my wife likes to say). Report to follow, although I'll have less time there today than I wanted....
I'd like to think the rusting metal cases are sacrificially protecting the coins inside, but I'm afraid the chemistry doesn't work that way. :(
Some people have always succeeded by working hard and doing a good job -- but there have always been more who have succeeded by working hard and...
I'm thinking that, at least in some years, we had to report how much we got paid and cost-of-goods/expenses separately. It's that latter part that...
Well, I have reported my (meager) profits from selling. That presumably makes those sales fair game for "show us your purchase receipts".
I was misremembering this quote from the PCGS page on proof 1878 Trade dollars: This still seems to indicate that some were not melted or "sold...
So that they can be displayed the same as the rest of the coins in the series? Not to imply that a coin collector would have OCD tendencies like...
I don't know whether he's still doing business, or even still alive, but that website won't provide the answer. I found a couple of one-star...
I have email invoices from every one of my eBay purchases. Many sellers include a printed invoice; some I've saved, some I haven't. Every....
About 50 pounds, by my figuring. It would be closer to 55 if they were all silver. I'd find a way to lift the extra 5 pounds if someone offered me...
Has the mint ever sold proof coins without a premium, other than when it dumped unsold ones into circulation? The production and handling of proof...
I make an effort, but this is a hobby, and my hobby is coins, not accounting. I'm sure a fine-grained audit would be super-painful, even though...
That's $15 worth of entertainment, I'd say. Eager to see what you get!
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