Then its a good coin shop. A little trick I learned long ago, if you want to see what kind of dealer you have, is some day ask to see his...
I was referencing Paul's post, and in it in the first paragraph he used "64.9 vs 65.1". That is why I used that. I understand your point about...
This was a plastic stencil like you see at craft stores. It had every year, and he got another for letters. You lined up the year under the hole,...
My main comments Paul is you are correct of course there are high and low end within a grade. However, trying to say there are people who can...
Maybe they went out of business since their customers "hadn't bought anything from them in a while". ;)
If it helps, you can buy stencils and can make your blanks look pretty darn close to printed pages. A friend of mine did that once, making himself...
Yeah, its hard. My ex wife tried to buy me a book once, it was great she tried, but.... Its hard, you love them for wishing to try, but know...
Isn't there blank pages? They used to sell blank ones, and you can just put the coins in and label yourself if you want. I bought an extra dime...
I saw that sir, but isn't it an oxymoron? Bullion clad? WTF is that? Bullion to me is bullion, pure metal. Clad means a mixture. Not quite as...
...to the sky.....we finally got a piece of the pie.
Well, they can be directed at me for a while versus Doug, he has had enough of his share on CT I believe. ;)
Lol, and now we here from the younger generation. :) Btw, I still have Travolta's album Green, back when he was a rock star, (or at least a teen...
Lol, yeah I read that link I think from coinflation. Pretty interesting. It was basically a demonstration of the lab's prowess in making ultra...
Not disagreeing. I am just referring to the oft quoted advice if someone posts a nice uncertified coin, "Wow, you should get that slabbed". That...
I am always wearing the dunce cap around here, ask anyone. :)
I personally OP would not have bought them since what you are doing is allowing the fakers to profit. If anyone sees them on Ebay I would...
Oh me, me, me, me, me! (Arnold Horshack impression), "oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh". :) Does that reference date me? Seriously, I am for TPG for...
I understand, but either way believe it would be best to have mods handle the issue.
Well, not rare so much as many societies across Asia basically ran their countries on the taxes on the silk road trade. The Parthians and later...
Its your collection OP, you make it what you want. If you wish to collect all circulation coinage countries versus all countries for the 20th...
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