Not disagreeing sir. I was just wishing to apologize for not referring parthian questions offhand to your site, but to parthia.com. I guess I was...
Lots of reasons there are so many ancients. The primary one being logistics. Simply put, there were no banks. If you had a large amount of cash to...
I understand, but organic material is frequently found in flans, as well as as part of the find site in which the coins are dug.
Seriously? A man, who is married to an asian women, who has studied Chinese coins and numismatic history for over a decade, (not just bought coins...
Just remember that while poker is both skill and luck, the crackout game is mostly skill. Always repeat to yourself probably 100 dealers before me...
Well I disagree of course. Remember a lot of ancient coins are found in pots, in the ground protected from the elements. Also, nearly all ancient...
And don't forget www.cngcoins.com for ancients.
Dmitry, I was referring to the fact in Ching China, and for most other dynasties, the penalty for counterfeiting was death. This still did not...
This seems to be a "hot" investment idea, as a guy last weekend was asking me about this. The same answer still applies, extremely high risk, and...
I would think the same reason the Chinese have counterfeited circulating coins for centuries, they can counterfeit them for less than face value....
Oh you know it will! ;)
You do that too? Cool, I thought I was the only one. I have lots of coins I buy for myself, but find myself sometimes buying something just...
Of course sir you are right. I will change my post, (goes for showing what happens when you rely on memory. :)) Remember, though, this was the...
No pic, (its me, hey), but I might go with Julian II. Well, I kind of have to, I named my son after him. :) Yes, he wasn't able to push back...
Well the best English language book I know is Hartill's "Cast Chinese Coinage". Frank Robinson or www.coincoin.com sells them. Those are also two...
Its a replica of a Ching Dynasty coin. Chinese coins are full of reproductions, even though the originals can be inexpensive. Its a tricky field....
Yeah, but I sure as heck like Fatima's sentiment of throwing a bunch of the regulators out. Madoff had whistleblowers showing detailed proof to...
I envy you. I remember my first red book......that poor thing had its binding shredded by the time I was done with it. Great first book for US...
Idk, I think I would accept a contemporary forgery, (especially considering the ethnicity of most Singaporeans), over an offmetal strike. To claim...
...and there lies the problem with price guides. How do you handle the variability? Every coin is unique, and every sale of every coin is unique....
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