Serves you right, you snobby US "don't touch your coins or the coin fairy will crap in your Cheerios". :D Best part of coin collecting is getting...
I never thought about it, but the only way to know the difference between pvc and pvc free flips is to have each in your hand. PVC flips will feel...
Well, I would expect after a couple of thousand years buried in the ground you might need a little sprucing up yourself. :)
With a 2 year timeframe I hope it works out for you. Personally I would have preferred to know my cash will be there, plus a little interest,...
Sounds like a good way to shatter a lot of coins. No, I haven't heard of this method.
Not value, but more long term desire. Listen, collect any way you want, but some of us who have been doing this quite a while are simply saying...
For moderns, yes. But for ancients, the most sought after patina you can get is the "hard green" patina. Hard to describe how beautiful this...
For copper, if you are just going to put them in a folder they will all tone anyway like Doug said. Knowing that, I would pick examples with the...
I rotate amongst the following: Sogdian Byzantine Hepthalite Sassanid Chinese cash and earlier Diocletian era Roman Kyrenaika Nabatea...
Both of the Valentinian coins clearly show SIS for Siscia. I am unsure of the date outside the dates this emperor ruled, (364-375).
Aorta by Suarez has lots of pics. For more overall Roman coins, I recommend Sear's 1988 edition of Roman Coins and their Values if only 1 book.
From the coins I have seen the last 8 years, "uncleaned coins" have really went down in potential. Hate to be an "old man" but you used to get...
Of course, if you view gold as "Money" then there is no upper limit to how much "money" people want. Any American would take an ounce of gold,...
Yeah, I have never bought that argument. Older collectors have been predicting the demise of their own hobby for decades now at least. When I...
Of course, there are various levels of risk, and correlations between assets and risks. We do what makes us comfortable, and diversify as much as...
I would counter that the people who actually CARE about PM has always been fairly small. This has been true for a very long time, even when coins...
The coin was AG, and as such the mintmark was weak. It was about half missing I would say, and the dealer didn't want to pay 16d money on...
Of course. I buy coins all of the time I don't know much of the history about to make me want to learn more about it. My only suggestion sir is...
Another thing to consider is "sacrificial" metal. Put fresh silver, like rounds, and maybe some new cents in the same box. These will tone before...
I believe that is all Mikem was trying to say. I would go further, and say moderation is the wisest course of action even for those experiences in...
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