Christian, you admit coins were mass produced, and we can agree they were made to be traded, frequently outside the borders of the country...
Also, while that toning MAY be real, its brutally ugly. All around loss. Bad day at the office I suppose. Would NGC make it right, or call it a...
You can always start with KM books. Always good to have for all world coin info. If you are really serious about them, I would track down a...
The letter to me sounds like the CME is trying to do the right thing and make sure its participants behave properly to everyone's long term...
Yes, the Bulgarians make some good quality fakes. To Christian, the main problem with these laws, and I don't care if they are under UNESCO or...
Exactly. How much longer will it be before MAssachusetts declares all Oak, Pine, and willow trees to be their cultural heritage and asks the US to...
Might work if someone doesn't build a "safe trap". Build an area of weakness in the path where the thieves have to move a safe, (if they brought...
BUt as I posted a month ago after I talked to CME reps, they told me the volatility calculation they use to determine margin percentages is...
I agree with BU. With safes, there really isn't any substitute for mass and thick steel. You need to have a really heavy safe, mounted into the...
For anyone interested, Bob Reis just did Scotland the last two issues of World Coin News. Pretty interesting articles. What I liek is how he goes...
I would go as far as saying all markets are somewhat manipulated by the market makers. However, those market makers are given special rights in...
Maybe sign up for next year's grading class at the ANA summer seminar? I bet any of us would learn a lot in that course, and you get to spend a...
Btw, here is the thread Rick I was referring to. Anyone is free to look up the article from NN. http://www.cointalk.com/t130595/ Btw I...
Welcome Ejn. Good to have you here. I am a huge fan of both your country and its coins, collecting coins from its entire history from Darius...
I have posted before about how a TPG grader wrote a NN article outlining this entire process, stating that, (to paraphrase), "All TPG now grade...
Yeah, I hate that. Last month I dreamed I put in a ton of bids to a European auction and there was bad weather there the day they held it, so I...
OP, what this dealer shorthand, (no offense LD), means is AU coins are now being graded MS61-63. Your grading skills are not wrong, its the fact...
Best guess is HSN, mail order "special offer", or the like. The 2000's were pretty lucrative for the platers, and it seems they moved a lot of...
Always good to see when they get recovered. There is a big dealer in NYC who was robbed once. I read about it in NN, so when I saw him at CICF...
But Rick, if he is talking a world coin, why would he NOT want to know the Krause value? What if a dealer is asking $800 for a coin Krause lists...
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