Any clerk who is looking at the dates of all of the pennies coming into and out of their drawer sounds like someone without enough to do. If I saw...
Cool man. Yeah, its fun to mess with people by giving them coins not really worth anything but let them see what are still coins in this country....
Probably more like the old Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times". :) The "good old days" where most in the hobby were agreed PM was...
If you know you only want drachms, that would work. I would also look at some of the larger dealers as well, like Heritage and CNG. However,...
I agree, XF45, and market acceptable surfaces. I would have bought it for that price. Nice coin. :)
I think you believe the TPGers are MUCH larger than they are. I own some shares of CLCT, (PCGS), and trust me they have about 1/1 millionth the...
Yeah, I had a chance to buy a lot once in nice VF, but they were all they dull grey, half silvered coins. I just couldn't get over the two tone,...
Collect what you can afford. Writing a check never makes a person a collector, its knowledge and love of the hobby. If you cannot afford expensive...
I view this as a common fallacy. I started in a coin club when I was younger than you, and most of the collectors were 40-70 year old men. I...
I agree Doug, but I think one part you are leaving out may solve the disagreement between you two. I think the price an educated buyer will pay is...
Yeah I saw it on NN cover but wasn't even interested enough to read the story. Many times I wonder why I still get NN.
I was saying it appears to, and many people accept that, this graph shows parabolic growth. However, its a deficiency of the graph and the nature...
But is it exponential? Look at Ctrl's post in #8. I see it growing, but do not see exponential functionality at play. I am a harder money kind...
Yes there is, and it was even a lecture of mine I gave. Personally I think its bad business to dismiss what I wrote without asking for the details...
I use flips exclusively. Two reasons. One, with ancients I need a lot more room for attribution, and two, it makes it easy to keep the inserts I...
All I would add, and not trying to derail the conversation, is be careful about those kinds of graphs. The nature of the graph is to show...
I was going to say the same thing. I would consider toning overall a bad thing in copper if its a choice between red and toning. Now, between...
I agree with the previous two posters. I have never seen a gold coin that shiny naturally. Not even fresh from the mint. I also believe the coin...
I agree, bubbly surface is the easiest way to tell its false. There are a few other reasons, but that is the easiest to point out to everyone.
Just like other repeatable actions, (cough **toning** cough), I would never like to put myself in danger by paying steep premiums for something...
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