The difference was that was a general circulation coin that folks used for currency transactions and 100 years later those in mint condition...
What does that mean ? I sincerely hope you are not one of these betting on the global monetary system collapsing or an asteroid striking the...
No...you misunderstood...it's the gold holdings and the potential profit from gold that are very small relative to quarterly profits or the...
No...they are buying and selling for clients as a custodian. I see this nonsense all the time with regards to Citibank, JP Morgan, etc. The...
That seems a bit high. I haven't bought silver in a while but on a %-basis it seems high. But given the absolute dollars, maybe not. I've bought...
No other banks including the ECB are looking to go to negative rates. A few are on the cusp. It's a sympton of debt deflation which is BAD for...
Nice change of pace...I guessed right, I thought the most appealing coin was #2 which is why I didn't think it was the 65; figured the OP was...
But no $$$ available in my checking account.....:D
Canadian Maple Leaf: Looks like production runs about 750K - 1.1 MM last few years, after only being a few hundred thousand 10-15 years ago....
Yes, and a bit out of the loop on coins the last few quarters....this is an expensive habit to sustain while job searching !! :D BTW, I was...
PCGS came out in 1986 (29 years); NGC in 1987. ANACS may have been out sooner but they didn't get the ball rolling. It wasn't the slab coins, it...
Just got an e-mail from my friend, he said the MS-65 Saint Commons hit $4,000 in 1989 but he never got more than $3,500...said he sold most...
Those were purchased early-1990's, I'll bet, right ? During the Coin Bubble when premiums went NUTS !! You are right, even a rising gold price...
Very good price, IMO, considering CAC. Nice job ! :cigar:
That's what I thought, Paul....still, has to hurt if you guess wrong in the short-term. Probably why I never went into business for myself. :D
Not all of them, but I know he sold a few at that discount to get a sale done or to sell other stuff. Usually, he'd undercut by $50-$100. As I...
Yes, Swish, the premium for actual gold rose as the Union ran into trouble and fell as the war went better for the North. I recall a chart in one...
Westtex, did you ever make a purchase ? Which one ?
But my understanding -- at least from relatives and from the Boards -- is that nobody paid for stuff with $20 Saints or other gold coins...
While you can't do that with all your coins/inventory, if you have 1 or 2 coins where you "guessed wrong" my guess is that you could wait for...
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