I agree sir, its up to the individual. We love our PM, value it, and talk about bests ways to safeguard it though. We are not average citizens in...
On the point of not being able to pay yoru taxes with Treasury securities, that is due to the registration feature. You can pay your taxes with a...
Those are weird animals. They are a cross between bonds and stocks. They are (strictly speaking), USUALLY less safe than the company's bonds but...
Fair enough sir, but it would be the investment you chose that bankrupted you. Anyone putting every nickel into just one stock, or one risky...
Just as an update if anyone cared, I got Numismatic News yesterday and saw a one page "buying ASE sets" ad for Moderncoinmart. I emailed them and...
I agree completely. Besides the buy/sell spread if you buy physical PM, the second greatest problem with PM is security. Where would you keep this...
Fair enough. So to OP unless you know where a coin was dug up, I agree with Doug to choose a circulated S or CC coin as your "Wild West" coins. I...
The 1943 cent was made from zinc coated steel. Any 1943's should stick to a magnet. Any other date shouldn't. I was asking about this lady's since...
Of course sir, but my point was if a morgan is ciculated it would have a higher chance of having been circulated in the old west than the east...
I agree. There is a strong tradition of using olive oil in cleaning ancients. I believe this started before movern chemistry. Oo is a very light...
I tell you what, IGrade got himself a nice coin. Unless in hand you can see something going on with the luster, (meaning the coin was cleaned and...
No no, I mean you are funny, you tell funny jokes, I like the way you told the story.......what?
I am the same. At coin shows I am usually buying "better" coins, so only buy a few at most. I have seen "vest pocket dealers" use briefcases...
If you like the old west, I would buy circulated Morgans. Silver dollars historically were not popular on the east coast, but were used a lot in...
Funny world where FRN's are considered "hard currency" huh? I understand your point sir, I simply think its funny that we have come so far to the...
Not a bad summary sir but I disagree with Islamic coins being one of the founding types of coins. It is generally recognized there were three...
The BEP prints the notes, and gets paid a fee for doing so. If they print a $100, they might be paid $.12 for it, they do not get $100 for the...
The Fed can print money. They print a bunch of $100's and sell them to banks. The banks transfer electronically dollars in return, and the Fed...
Close, but its more scope of amounts outstanding. There is like $600 billion in all FRN, (cannot remember exact number), but $15 trillion in...
Lucy, maybe post 163 will help, or another post I made a few posts later. The point was there is many forms of the dollar, but for large...
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